If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
BILL WALTONThe NCAA is working night and day trying to get Jerry, but no one from the NCAA ever questioned me during my four years at UCLA!
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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I like a lot of other music and listen to a lot of other music, but one of the greatest things about the Grateful Dead is they played all the time.
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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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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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The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I’m an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike.
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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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The NCAA is working night and day trying to get Jerry, but no one from the NCAA ever questioned me during my four years at UCLA!
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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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[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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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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