[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
BILL WALTONI grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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I love to play music. I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
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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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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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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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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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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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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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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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The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.
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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 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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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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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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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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