I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
BILL WALTONThere 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.
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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 had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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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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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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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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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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Right now, you know, it’s not about the refs or anything else, it’s about hitting first, getting on the run and never looking back.
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No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
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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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I’m a lifelong stutterer.
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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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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.
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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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Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
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Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
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