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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

#believe #better #getting #giving #go

As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game. ↗

— Larry Bird

#because #black #care #disrespect #far

This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are. ↗

— Artur Davis

#before #bend #blessed #blows #break

This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership. ↗

— Artur Davis

#america #celebrity #confuse #executive #experienced

It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be. ↗

— Rose Bird

#define #going #limits #mainstream #majority

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

#fundamentals #guys #i #just #like

But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever. ↗

— Larry Bird

#forever #game #man #will

I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American. ↗

— Larry Bird

#athletes #greatest #i #mean #world

In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of. ↗

— Lee Krasner

#name #pollock #totally #unheard #unknown

If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first. ↗

— Larry Bird

#bank #came #children #deal #due