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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More Bill Walton Quotes
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Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.
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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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Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
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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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Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It’s up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.
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Music is critical in our lives and culture. It’s the inspiration that drives us. It’s also the window to our souls. It’s a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we’re going.
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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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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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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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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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If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
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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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I’m a different person today than I was yesterday. I live for the moment and everything that happens in my life changes me.
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I went to my first show [of the Grateful Dead], got right up front and never left. The incredible excitement, the family, the spirit, the hope, the happiness, all the different things I love and live for in life are there.
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