John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
BILL WALTONWhat a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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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Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
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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 started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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I mean, I’m 6-foot-11, I’ve got red hair, freckles, I’m a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I’ve got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I’m a Deadhead.
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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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Right now, you know, it’s not about the refs or anything else, it’s about hitting first, getting on the run and never looking back.
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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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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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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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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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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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Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana. So many of them are still around and still going strong. I go out to see them all the time.
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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’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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