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.
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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I’m a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.
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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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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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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 learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
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You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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I mean, I’m 6-foot-11, I’ve got red hair, freckles, I’m a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I’ve got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I’m a Deadhead.
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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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No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
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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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It changes over the course of life, depending on how you’re feeling. There’s this incredible catalog of different songs, so it depends on what you’re hoping for, what your dream is and that song will come on.
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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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I love to play music. I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
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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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Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.
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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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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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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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Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
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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 couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
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Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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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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My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
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When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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