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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.

Bill Walton

John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
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Basketball Civilization Country
The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I’m an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike.
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Avid Book Collector Passion
I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
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Basketball Imaginer Life Playing
It’s the most pleasurable experience in the world! When you’re on a great team and you get hot, your teammates milk you dry – they wear you out and there’s nothing like being on a great team.
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Hot Pleasurable Team World
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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Changing Life Live Moment Yesterday
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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Finding Forget never Talking Yourself
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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Basketball Nba Years
I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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Hemisphere Looks Sports
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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Children Ipods Shuffle Wife
There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You’re talking about men vs. boys.
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Beating Boys Dream Team
I’m a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.
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Basketball Friend Grateful Met Player
I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
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Legends Many Lakers Player Shaped
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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Business Encompasses Skills Sports Today
Yao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside and out. The vision, the creativity, the gentleness of spirit … he has it all.
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Beautiful Creativity Game Happen
[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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Inspiration Music Term Want
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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Artwork Banf Exploration Inspire Joy More Teamwork

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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