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.
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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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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When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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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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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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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 passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I’m an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike.
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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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When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
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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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I went to my first show [of the Grateful Dead], got right up front and never left. The incredible excitement, the family, the spirit, the hope, the happiness, all the different things I love and live for in life are there.
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I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
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Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
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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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Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else’s success?
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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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