When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
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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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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If the UCLA teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s were subjected to the kind of scrutiny (other schools) have been, UCLA would probably have to forfeit about eight national championships and be on probation for the next 100 years.
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I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
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Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
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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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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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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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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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When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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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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Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.
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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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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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