No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
BILL WALTONI 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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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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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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The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.
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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.
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During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
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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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When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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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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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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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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I’m mainstream. Always have been.
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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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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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I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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