John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
BILL WALTONIf you’re living for today, if you’re only dreaming about yesterday, it doesn’t work. You got to know that tomorrow is going to be better. Then you’re on your way.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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 started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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I’m a different person today than I was yesterday. I live for the moment and everything that happens in my life changes me.
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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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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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When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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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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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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There are four pillars to happiness, which is the ultimate goal in life-to be happy. Health is first, family is second, home is third. That safe place where you can go to and regroup, be in a safe place by yourself start over.
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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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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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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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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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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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