When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
BILL WALTONThe 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!
More Bill Walton Quotes
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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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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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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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Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
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I’m mainstream. Always have been.
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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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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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[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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There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.
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Right now, you know, it’s not about the refs or anything else, it’s about hitting first, getting on the run and never looking back.
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You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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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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Music is critical in our lives and culture. It’s the inspiration that drives us. It’s also the window to our souls. It’s a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we’re going.
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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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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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