Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana. So many of them are still around and still going strong. I go out to see them all the time.
BILL WALTONThat’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.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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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The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
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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.
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Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
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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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The NCAA is working night and day trying to get Jerry, but no one from the NCAA ever questioned me during my four years at UCLA!
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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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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’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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I’ve had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don’t work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.
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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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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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[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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I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
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I love to play music. I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
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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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It’s the most pleasurable experience in the world! When you’re on a great team and you get hot, your teammates milk you dry – they wear you out and there’s nothing like being on a great team.
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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 started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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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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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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When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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If you’re living for today, if you’re only dreaming about yesterday, it doesn’t work. You got to know that tomorrow is going to be better. Then you’re on your way.
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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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