Being a leader is leading a group of people or an organization. While in basketball you have to have at least one person that will step up and be a leader for you're team. You have to get them pumped when you're losing and step it up when you're team needs you. Suddenly I had a whole new way to play. It was great because when you pass the ball that way it makes your teammates happy and it also makes it much easier for you to shoot. (Bird 30)
"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."
Some people have talent that come from birth. But the down side of that is they use their talent to be successful. Talent will only take you so far, if you want to accomplish something you don't just not practice and think you're going to make it in life because you were born that way you have to practice and get better that way.
"Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around."
This quote means that when someone tells them that they are the best they let it go to their head and just don't practice like how they should they just think they don't need to because people think they are the best at something.
"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."
When you play on a team with other people and you walk in and tell you're teammates that every game or practice they have you're going to give you all. Then when you actually get out there and play you don't do what you said you were those people loose faith, and trust in you because you lied to them. It only takes one lie to loose someone's trust, then it's gone.
"When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute."
When Larry Bird was a boy he had a rough childhood he didn't have that much money or things to play with. Growing up wasn't always easy for me. My family didn't have much, so we appreciated anything we had. The way I grew up was very different from the way most people who i have met grew up. (Bird 6)