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.
BILL WALTONMick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It’s up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.
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Tim Duncan’s foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year’s playoffs. That’s not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball.
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I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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I had this fantastic collection of Grateful Dead T-shirts and live concert music the band had give me over all these years, decades of material, and when our boys became teenagers they started going through everything and wearing the shirts and listening to the music and that’s what the Grateful Dead is all about.
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Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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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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Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
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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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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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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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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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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 Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
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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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[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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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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