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.
BILL WALTONHealth is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can’t do anything.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The joy, the optimism, the teamwork, the experimentation, the exploration, the curiosity. No band has inspired more artwork, no band has inspired more books. No band has ever inspired a more loyal following and I’m involved in all of that stuff.
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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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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 love to play music. I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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Life is easy when you’re hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.
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You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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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 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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