Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
BILL WALTONYao 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.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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The joy, the optimism, the teamwork, the experimentation, the exploration, the curiosity. No band has inspired more artwork, no band has inspired more books. No band has ever inspired a more loyal following and I’m involved in all of that stuff.
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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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Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
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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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During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
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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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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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Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
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We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
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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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I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
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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.
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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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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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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.
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