During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
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Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
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Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
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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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Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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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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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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I love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow up and become who they are is so incredibly special.
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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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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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Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?
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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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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.
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When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
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No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
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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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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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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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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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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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The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all
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[Peter] Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I quickly gravitated to rock and roll music in the mid-’60s with the Grateful Dead,
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I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.
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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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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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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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