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He is easily the best, I put him along with Henry Longhurst in golf and Harry Carpenter in boxing. It's a gift, he will be sadly missed, he's a legend,


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LARRY BIRD I am very happy for DJ. As a former teammate and friend, Dennis is a good person and I am sure he wi...
LARRY BIRD I don't believe that. How can they be affected? It's the same thing every year.
LARRY BIRD We're glad this is over with. We wanted to be patient with this one because Ronnie is a heck of a pl...
LARRY BIRD I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
LARRY BIRD I think he's the right guy at the right time. Sometimes you need a wake-up call. We've got ours.
LARRY BIRD If there's a deal out there where we think we can better our team, we will do it.
LARRY BIRD Any time you deal a player, you would like him to go out of the conference. We're looking at the Wes...
LARRY BIRD I think enough is enough. I think Ronnie will do fine, but not here.
LARRY BIRD Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around. If...
LARRY BIRD It's a very special day for me,
LARRY BIRD The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
LARRY BIRD We're still looking and seeing what we can do. We like our team, we're very deep, but we don't like ...
LARRY BIRD It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.
LARRY BIRD The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, ...
ISABELLA BIRD The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the ai...
ISABELLA BIRD Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've ...
BRAD BIRD The Japanese look most diminutive in European dress. Each garment is a misfit and exaggerates the mi...
ISABELLA BIRD There are eight or nine leading varieties of rice grown in Japan, all of which, except an upland spe...
ISABELLA BIRD The Shat-el-Arab is a noble river or estuary. From both its Persian and Turkish shores, however, mou...
ISABELLA BIRD A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncr...
ISABELLA BIRD was a clown. But if it turns out that he was telling the truth, then who else is lying? It's a dark ...
ALAN BIRD I think when we do the budget, we make a number of assumptions, and that's one of them. We assume th...
GREG BIRD I think everyone thinks their dad is a little bit odd or crazy. As they get older, they develop thei...
SIMON BIRD I was standing in a crop formation north of Milton. I look up and I see this super-bright light up t...
MIKE BIRD My first yak was fairly quiet and looked a noble steed with my Mexican saddle and gay blanket among ...
ISABELLA BIRD If the government does continue with this level of response, I think it will build confidence in the...
BELLA BIRD I went to the States with that amount of prejudice which seems the birthright of every English perso...
ISABELLA BIRD The writing comes first for me. Not Facebook, not Twitter, not the Internet or signings or merchandi...
JESSICA BIRD Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, ...
BRAD BIRD My first experiences of Colorado travel have been rather severe. At Greeley, I got a small upstairs ...
ISABELLA BIRD I've been holding my breath the whole time waiting for the answer to come because I knew it would be...
AMANDA BIRD Yokohama does not improve on further acquaintance. It has a dead-alive look. It has irregularity wit...
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