I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
BILL WALTONIt’s the most pleasurable experience in the world! When you’re on a great team and you get hot, your teammates milk you dry – they wear you out and there’s nothing like being on a great team.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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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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When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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I’ve got my iPod and I’ve got it on shuffle. If I’m not ready for one, I’ll click to the next one. My wife, Lori, and our children, Adam, Nate, Chris, and Luke, will all tell you that when I find one I like it can stay on repeat for weeks on end.
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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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Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?
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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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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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There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You’re talking about men vs. boys.
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Tim Duncan’s foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year’s playoffs. That’s not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball.
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Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
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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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Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else’s success?
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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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Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.
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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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I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
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Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
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I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
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When you find yourself talking about less and less and forgetting the love that you bring, never forget there are things you can replace but others you can not.
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I’m a lifelong stutterer.
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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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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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That’s what makes it so fun to be on a team. You’re sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it’s going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.
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John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
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My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain.
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