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.
BILL WALTONI 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.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.
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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.
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When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
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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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Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
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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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Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
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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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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 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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Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
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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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I’ve got my iPod and I’ve got it on shuffle. If I’m not ready for one, I’ll click to the next one. My wife, Lori, and our children, Adam, Nate, Chris, and Luke, will all tell you that when I find one I like it can stay on repeat for weeks on end.
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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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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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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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I mean, I’m 6-foot-11, I’ve got red hair, freckles, I’m a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I’ve got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I’m a Deadhead.
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In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.
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Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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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 believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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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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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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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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