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Mick 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.

Bill Walton

Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana. So many of them are still around and still going strong. I go out to see them all the time.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Game Go Many Out Players Time Ucla
John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
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Basketball Civilization Country
I’ve had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don’t work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.
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Ankles Hands Operations Two
[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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Inspiration Music Term Want
During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
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Concerts Constantly Courses Dead Grateful Player
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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Boys Collection Fantastic Grateful Teenager
I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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Grateful Love School Summer
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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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Sports Stress
Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
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Disaster Follow Team
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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Anything Athlete Hate Hurt
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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Basketball Civilization Mean Nasty
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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Business Encompasses Skills Sports Today
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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Changing Life Pain Running
I’m a lifelong stutterer.
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Life Lifelong Slutterer
I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
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Inspire Music Power Values
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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Avid Book Collector Passion
I’ve got my iPod and I’ve got it on shuffle. If I’m not ready for one, I’ll click to the next one. My wife, Lori, and our children, Adam, Nate, Chris, and Luke, will all tell you that when I find one I like it can stay on repeat for weeks on end.
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Children Ipods Shuffle Wife
What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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Funny Pathetic Play
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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Fate Guarantees Life Simple
I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
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Legends Many Lakers Player Shaped
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.
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Dad Play Sight
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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Climbing Getting Back Hot
[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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Getting Grateful Ready Song Strong
When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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Age Romantic Thinking
I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
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Get Health Long Well
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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Country Missing Shots
A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
BILL WALTON

Anything Effects Mean People Understand

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