Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else’s success?
BILL WALTONThe only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
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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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During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
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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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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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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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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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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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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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Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can’t do anything.
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I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
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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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But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it’s the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan’s beard look good.
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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 only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
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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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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 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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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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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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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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