John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
BILL WALTONAnytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.
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I’m a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.
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Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
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Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can’t do anything.
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I hate to say anything that may hurt UCLA, but I can’t be quiet when I see what the NCAA is doing to Jerry Tarkanian only because he has a reputation for giving a second chance to many black athletes other coaches have branded as troublemakers.
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Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
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I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
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I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
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There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.
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My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
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The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I’m an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike.
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During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
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I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
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I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
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Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
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I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
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You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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If the UCLA teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s were subjected to the kind of scrutiny (other schools) have been, UCLA would probably have to forfeit about eight national championships and be on probation for the next 100 years.
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That’s what I tried to share in this book, Back From The Dead, the ability to learn, to dream, to hope. In a world that is far too often selling fear and death, I’m selling hope and life and success and that’s why I chose to be part of the Grateful Dead.
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But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it’s the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan’s beard look good.
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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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