Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else’s success?
BILL WALTONI learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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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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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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 the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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There are four pillars to happiness, which is the ultimate goal in life-to be happy. Health is first, family is second, home is third. That safe place where you can go to and regroup, be in a safe place by yourself start over.
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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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During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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Yao 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.
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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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Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
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Life is easy when you’re hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.
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I like a lot of other music and listen to a lot of other music, but one of the greatest things about the Grateful Dead is they played all the time.
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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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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.
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