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BILL WALTONWhen you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
More Bill Walton Quotes
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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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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 grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can sight read, can play by ear.
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When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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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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[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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The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
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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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Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.
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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 can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
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I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
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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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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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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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I went to my first show [of the Grateful Dead], got right up front and never left. The incredible excitement, the family, the spirit, the hope, the happiness, all the different things I love and live for in life are there.
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When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.
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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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Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It’s up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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