Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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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No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
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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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The NCAA is working night and day trying to get Jerry, but no one from the NCAA ever questioned me during my four years at UCLA!
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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 hate to say anything that may hurt UCLA, but I can’t be quiet when I see what the NCAA is doing to Jerry Tarkanian only because he has a reputation for giving a second chance to many black athletes other coaches have branded as troublemakers.
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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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I’m mainstream. Always have been.
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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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Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can’t do anything.
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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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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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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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I’m a different person today than I was yesterday. I live for the moment and everything that happens in my life changes me.
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The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I’m an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike.
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When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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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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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
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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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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 have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
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Yao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside and out. The vision, the creativity, the gentleness of spirit … he has it all.
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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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I love to play music. I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
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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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