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No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.

Bill Walton

[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 had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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Hemisphere Looks Sports
Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
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Conferences Eastern Player
If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
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Going Johnson Jumpers
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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Happiness Highest Levels
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
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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Anything Effects Mean People Understand
Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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Else Inseparable Life Music
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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Basketball Civilization Mean Nasty
When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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Balls Defense Stomach
Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
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Disaster Follow Team
The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
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Cliffs Even Men Unstoppable
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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Eight Kind School Team Ucla
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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Changing Life Pain Running
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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Basketball Motivational Player
Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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Basketball Bills Player

No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.

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