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.
BILL WALTONI grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
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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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The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
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Kevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He’s already one of the greatest players to have played the game.
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I’m a different person today than I was yesterday. I live for the moment and everything that happens in my life changes me.
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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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When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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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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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 started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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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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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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[Peter] Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I quickly gravitated to rock and roll music in the mid-’60s with the Grateful Dead,
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Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
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I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
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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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