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.
BILL WALTONI hate to say anything that may hurt UCLA, but I can’t be quiet when I see what the NCAA is doing to Jerry Tarkanian only because he has a reputation for giving a second chance to many black athletes other coaches have branded as troublemakers.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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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Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.
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My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain.
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Right now, you know, it’s not about the refs or anything else, it’s about hitting first, getting on the run and never looking back.
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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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It changes over the course of life, depending on how you’re feeling. There’s this incredible catalog of different songs, so it depends on what you’re hoping for, what your dream is and that song will come on.
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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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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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I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
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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 live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow up and become who they are is so incredibly special.
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I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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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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Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
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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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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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I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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I’m mainstream. Always have been.
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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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I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
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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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When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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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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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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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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