I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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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I’ve had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don’t work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.
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Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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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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Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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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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Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.
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I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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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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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 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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I’m a lifelong stutterer.
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When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
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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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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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