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.
BILL WALTONBill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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That’s what I tried to share in this book, Back From The Dead, the ability to learn, to dream, to hope. In a world that is far too often selling fear and death, I’m selling hope and life and success and that’s why I chose to be part of the Grateful Dead.
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Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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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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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
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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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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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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.
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I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
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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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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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If the UCLA teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s were subjected to the kind of scrutiny (other schools) have been, UCLA would probably have to forfeit about eight national championships and be on probation for the next 100 years.
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Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
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Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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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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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
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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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It’s the most pleasurable experience in the world! When you’re on a great team and you get hot, your teammates milk you dry – they wear you out and there’s nothing like being on a great team.
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I love to play music. I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
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Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can’t do anything.
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When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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I’m a lifelong stutterer.
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