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.
BILL WALTONLife 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.
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 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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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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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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There are four pillars to happiness, which is the ultimate goal in life-to be happy. Health is first, family is second, home is third. That safe place where you can go to and regroup, be in a safe place by yourself start over.
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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 can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
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Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?
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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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I’m a lifelong stutterer.
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You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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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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No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
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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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