[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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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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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I’ve got my iPod and I’ve got it on shuffle. If I’m not ready for one, I’ll click to the next one. My wife, Lori, and our children, Adam, Nate, Chris, and Luke, will all tell you that when I find one I like it can stay on repeat for weeks on end.
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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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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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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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During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
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The NCAA is working night and day trying to get Jerry, but no one from the NCAA ever questioned me during my four years at UCLA!
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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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The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all
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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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[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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Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.
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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
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I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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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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It changes over the course of life, depending on how you’re feeling. There’s this incredible catalog of different songs, so it depends on what you’re hoping for, what your dream is and that song will come on.
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Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
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Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
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If 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.
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If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
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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 started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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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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I like a lot of other music and listen to a lot of other music, but one of the greatest things about the Grateful Dead is they played all the time.
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