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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?

Bill Walton

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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Hot Pleasurable Team World
Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
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Conferences Eastern Player
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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Basketball Factor Thinking Years
I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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Hemisphere Looks Sports
I love to play music. I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
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Learning Play Terrible
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 lifelong stutterer.
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Life Lifelong Slutterer
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
My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain.
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Changing Life Pain Running
That’s what makes it so fun to be on a team. You’re sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it’s going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.
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Basketball Crazy Fun
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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Basketball Grow Up Ucla
No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.
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Basketball Nba Years
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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Book Dream Grateful
You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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Basketball Sports Winning
Life is easy when you’re hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.
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Climbing Getting Back Hot
When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
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Cheer Grateful Yelling

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