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.
BILL WALTONI couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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I love to play music. I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
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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.
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Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
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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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I’ve had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don’t work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.
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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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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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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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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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I’m mainstream. Always have been.
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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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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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Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
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When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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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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If you’re living for today, if you’re only dreaming about yesterday, it doesn’t work. You got to know that tomorrow is going to be better. Then you’re on your way.
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I’m a lifelong stutterer.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
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Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
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