[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
BILL WALTON[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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Yao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside and out. The vision, the creativity, the gentleness of spirit … he has it all.
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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.
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When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
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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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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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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 had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
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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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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.
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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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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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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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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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