Larry Quotes

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  A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

  Larry Bird

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

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• Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Men, Thinking

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• I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Being Strong, Practice

  Larry Bird (1990). “Drive: The Story of My Life”, Bantam Books

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• I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Strong, Real

  “Larry Bird: What I've Learned” by Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. January 6, 2009.

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  Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

  Larry Bird

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Winning, Balls

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• The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

  Nikki Blonsky

  Basketball, Being Yourself, Diving

  "Nikki Blonsky Talks to Seventeen About Huge!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. July 1, 2010.

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• When you're the first person whose beliefs are different from what everyone else believes, you're basically saying, "I'm right, and everyone else is wrong." That's a very unpleasant position to be in. It's at once exhilarating and at the same time an invitation to be attacked.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Change, Business

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• If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

  Larry Page

  Inspiring, Beach, Long

  "Meet The Google Guys". Interview with Adi Ignatius, content.time.com. February 12, 2006.

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• You have to act and act now.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Overcoming Adversity

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• The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Eye, Announcers

  “Larry Bird: What I've Learned” by Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. January 6, 2009.

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• I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Talking, Nba

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• You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Winning, Night

  "Making a Run From the Border". Chicago Tribune, February 17, 1998.

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• I hate to lose more than I like to win.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Hate, Winning

  "Larry Bird : Doer and Teacher" by Douglas S. Looney, Christian Science Monitor (p. 8.), May 22, 1998.

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• When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.

  Larry Bird

  Inspirational, Basketball, Dream

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• Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

  Larry Bird

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

  Larry Bird (1990). “Drive: The Story of My Life”, Bantam Books

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• The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it's enormously useful in life.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Teacher, Personality

  "Prophet of Software". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it.

  Larry Bird

  Play, Teammate, Able

  Larry Bird (1990). “Drive: The Story of My Life”, Bantam Books

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• To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Jobs, Use

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  I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

  Larry Bird

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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  Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

  Larry Bird

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

  Larry Bird (1990). “Drive: The Story of My Life”, Bantam Books

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• I'm right, and everyone else is wrong.

  Larry Ellison

  Matthew Symonds, Larry Ellison (2004). “Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he's saying to me, Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?

  Don Rickles

  Kings, Thinking, Cells

  "What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Larry [ Laurenzano] said to me one day near the end of junior high, "Jon, are you Jewish?" I said, "No." And he said, "Well neither am I. I'm not sure of Caesar DiMauro, but he teaches at the JCC and I got you a scholarship there."

  Jon Gordon

  One Day, Juniors, Junior High

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