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.
BILL WALTONBut 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.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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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That’s what I tried to share in this book, Back From The Dead, the ability to learn, to dream, to hope. In a world that is far too often selling fear and death, I’m selling hope and life and success and that’s why I chose to be part of the Grateful Dead.
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The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all
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You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
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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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I went to my first show [of the Grateful Dead], got right up front and never left. The incredible excitement, the family, the spirit, the hope, the happiness, all the different things I love and live for in life are there.
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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 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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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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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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I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I’ve had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.
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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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Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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