That’s what makes it so fun to be on a team. You’re sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it’s going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.
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.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain.
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Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
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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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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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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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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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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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I hate to say anything that may hurt UCLA, but I can’t be quiet when I see what the NCAA is doing to Jerry Tarkanian only because he has a reputation for giving a second chance to many black athletes other coaches have branded as troublemakers.
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Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
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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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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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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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Life is easy when you’re hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.
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I’m mainstream. Always have been.
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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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