I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can sight read, can play by ear.
BILL WALTONI 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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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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When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
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I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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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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Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
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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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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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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 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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Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
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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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Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.
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