I love to play music. I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
BILL WALTONGrowing 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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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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During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
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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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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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The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
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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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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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[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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We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
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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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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 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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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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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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I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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