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Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

Bill Walton

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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Nba Years
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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Book Dream Grateful
I had this fantastic collection of Grateful Dead T-shirts and live concert music the band had give me over all these years, decades of material, and when our boys became teenagers they started going through everything and wearing the shirts and listening to the music and that’s what the Grateful Dead is all about.
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Boys Collection Fantastic Grateful Teenager
My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
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Church Gym Wheelchair
I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can sight read, can play by ear.
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Dad Play Sight
It changes over the course of life, depending on how you’re feeling. There’s this incredible catalog of different songs, so it depends on what you’re hoping for, what your dream is and that song will come on.
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Catalog Dream Feelings Incredible Song
Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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Basketball Bills Player
I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
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Dream Move Moving Sleep
Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Grow Up Ucla
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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Children Ipods Shuffle Wife
Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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Else Inseparable Life Music
Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
BILL WALTON

League Player Unathletic
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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Greatest Player Team
I like a lot of other music and listen to a lot of other music, but one of the greatest things about the Grateful Dead is they played all the time.
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Grateful Listen Music Other
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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Basketball Civilization Country
[Peter] Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I quickly gravitated to rock and roll music in the mid-’60s with the Grateful Dead,
BILL WALTON

Getting Grateful Ready Song Strong

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