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.
BILL WALTONIt’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.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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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When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
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I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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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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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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My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain.
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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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