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.
BILL WALTONTim Duncan’s foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year’s playoffs. That’s not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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I’m mainstream. Always have been.
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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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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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If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
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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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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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I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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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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Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
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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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But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it’s the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan’s beard look good.
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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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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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Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
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I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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