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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as toug...

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Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. I...

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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust...

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This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh ...

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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 ...

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Larry Bird

Basketball Coach

Born: 1956-12-07

Died: N/A

Larry Joe Bird (born December 7, 1956) is a retired American NBA basketball player, widely considered one of the best players of all time and one of the top clutch performers in the history of sports. Drafted into the NBA sixth overall by the Boston Celtics in 1979, Bird started at small forward and power forward for thirteen seasons, teaming with legendary center Robert Parish and forward Kevin McHale. Due to back problems, he retired as a player from the NBA in 1992. Bird was voted to the NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team in 1996 and inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1998. He served as head coach of the Indiana Pacers from 1997 to 2000. In 2003, he assumed the role of president of basketball operations for the Pacers, which he currently still holds.More