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I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can sight read, can play by ear.

Bill Walton

You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Sports Winning
[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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Inspiration Music Term Want
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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Anything Effects Mean People Understand
I’m a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.
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Basketball Friend Grateful Met Player
I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
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Dream Move Moving Sleep
Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
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Conferences Eastern Player
Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.
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Championship Children Congratulations
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.
BILL WALTON

Book Grateful Teamwork
I love to play music. I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
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Learning Play Terrible
Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It’s up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Funny Player
When you find yourself talking about less and less and forgetting the love that you bring, never forget there are things you can replace but others you can not.
BILL WALTON

Finding Forget never Talking Yourself
There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You’re talking about men vs. boys.
BILL WALTON

Beating Boys Dream 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
Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
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Disaster Follow Team
But 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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Civilization Mean Nasty
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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Country Missing Shots

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