Boston Celtics Quotes:

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

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Success, Basketball, Motivation Goal Setting, Life Goal

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

topic: Basketball, Memorable, Boston, Memorable Moments, Boston Celtics

I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight.

- Wilt Chamberlain

topic: Basketball, Boston, Games, Boston Celtics

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

- Larry Bird

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Athlete, Sports Coach, Give It Your All

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

- Larry Bird

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Sports, Give It All You Got, Inspirational Hard Work

The Boston Celtics are not a basketball team, they are a way of life.

- Red Auerbach

topic: Basketball, Team, Boston, Boston Celtics

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

source: Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.119, Scholastic UK

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Basketball, Sports Leadership, Boston Celtics

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

topic: Basketball, Talking, Lord, Talking About Money, Boston Celtics

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

- Larry Bird

topic: Basketball, Winning, Balls, Encouraging Basketball, Basketball Player

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

- Nikki Blonsky

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

topic: Basketball, Being Yourself, Diving, Sports Leadership, Vigorous

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

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

topic: Basketball, Being Strong, Nba, Boston Celtics, Larry

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

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Court, Motivational Basketball, Funny Basketball

The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

- Larry Bird

topic: Basketball, Player, Play, Boston Celtics

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

topic: Basketball, Yellow, White, Guarded, Boston Celtics

I really don't like talking about diets.

- Bess Myerson

topic: Talking, Boston Celtics, Nba Player

Congratulations to the NBA champion Boston Celtics - they beat the Los Angeles Lakers by 39 points. Or as Hillary Clinton would say, "Too close to call.

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Congratulations, Boston, Nba, Boston Celtics

Karen Russell learned to think from her father, someone Peter Gammons knows well, Boston Celtics legend Bill Russell, who used his prominence to support Martin Luther King Jr., to support the civil rights movement, and other important work, including work in Africa throughout his career. And Bill Russell is still at it.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Kings, Father, Thinking, Prominence, Boston Celtics

I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.

- Bill Walton

topic: Basketball, Teamwork, Growing Up, Boston Celtics

Bill Russell, a famous philosopher from Boston Celtics once "When things go bad, things go bad." The [Iraq] war was terribly mismanaged-it was terribly mismanaged.

- Jon Stewart

source: "Bill Moyers talks with Jon Stewart". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

topic: War, Boston, Iraq, Boston Celtics