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.
BILL WALTONI might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I’ve had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
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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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I love to play music. I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
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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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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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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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Kevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He’s already one of the greatest players to have played the game.
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I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.
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[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,
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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 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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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 started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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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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The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
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