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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.

Bill Walton

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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Catalog Dream Feelings Incredible Song
I love to play music. I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
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Learning Play Terrible
I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.
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Basketball Country Growing Teamwork
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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Fate Guarantees Life Simple
I 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.
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Anything Athlete Hate Hurt
I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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Believe Canyons Evolution
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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Football Future Games Player
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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Basketball Foot Freckles Hair Mean
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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Country Missing Shots
Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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League Player Unathletic
[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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Getting Grateful Ready Song Strong
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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Grateful Grow Up People
Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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Basketball Funny Planets
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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Grateful Listen Music Other
When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
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Cheer Grateful Yelling
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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Basketball Game Go Many Out Players Time Ucla

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