When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
BILL WALTONWhen I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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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’m mainstream. Always have been.
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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 learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
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Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?
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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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That’s what makes it so fun to be on a team. You’re sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it’s going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.
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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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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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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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My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
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If the UCLA teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s were subjected to the kind of scrutiny (other schools) have been, UCLA would probably have to forfeit about eight national championships and be on probation for the next 100 years.
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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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No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
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A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
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