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.
BILL WALTONIf you’re living for today, if you’re only dreaming about yesterday, it doesn’t work. You got to know that tomorrow is going to be better. Then you’re on your way.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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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When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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I love to play music. I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
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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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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 love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow up and become who they are is so incredibly special.
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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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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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There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You’re talking about men vs. boys.
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I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
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I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
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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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Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.
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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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Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else’s success?
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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
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My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
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Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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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 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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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.
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There are four pillars to happiness, which is the ultimate goal in life-to be happy. Health is first, family is second, home is third. That safe place where you can go to and regroup, be in a safe place by yourself start over.
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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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When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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It’s the most pleasurable experience in the world! When you’re on a great team and you get hot, your teammates milk you dry – they wear you out and there’s nothing like being on a great team.
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