When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
BILL WALTONThere 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.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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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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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I 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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You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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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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I’m mainstream. Always have been.
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That’s what makes it so fun to be on a team. You’re sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it’s going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.
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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 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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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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The joy, the optimism, the teamwork, the experimentation, the exploration, the curiosity. No band has inspired more artwork, no band has inspired more books. No band has ever inspired a more loyal following and I’m involved in all of that stuff.
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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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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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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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