We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
BILL WALTONI learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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There are four pillars to happiness, which is the ultimate goal in life-to be happy. Health is first, family is second, home is third. That safe place where you can go to and regroup, be in a safe place by yourself start over.
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Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I’ve had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.
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If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
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The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.
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No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.
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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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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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I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn’t speak at all. I was a very shy, reserved player and a very shy, reserved person. I found a safe place in life in basketball.
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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.
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In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.
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