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I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.

Bill Walton

I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
BILL WALTON

Inspire Music Power Values
I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
BILL WALTON

Hemisphere Looks Sports
I’ve got my iPod and I’ve got it on shuffle. If I’m not ready for one, I’ll click to the next one. My wife, Lori, and our children, Adam, Nate, Chris, and Luke, will all tell you that when I find one I like it can stay on repeat for weeks on end.
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Children Ipods Shuffle Wife
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
Music is critical in our lives and culture. It’s the inspiration that drives us. It’s also the window to our souls. It’s a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we’re going.
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Inspiration Reflection Soul
I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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Grateful Love School Summer
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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Artwork Banf Exploration Inspire Joy More Teamwork
I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
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Basketball Imaginer Life Playing
Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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Basketball Funny Planets
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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Basketball Hitting Running
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
Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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League Player Unathletic
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
The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.
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Happen People Responsibility Television
Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
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Disaster Follow Team
I had this fantastic collection of Grateful Dead T-shirts and live concert music the band had give me over all these years, decades of material, and when our boys became teenagers they started going through everything and wearing the shirts and listening to the music and that’s what the Grateful Dead is all about.
BILL WALTON

Boys Collection Fantastic Grateful Teenager

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