I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
BILL WALTON[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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When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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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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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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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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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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When you find yourself talking about less and less and forgetting the love that you bring, never forget there are things you can replace but others you can not.
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The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.
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I’m mainstream. Always have been.
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Yao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside and out. The vision, the creativity, the gentleness of spirit … he has it all.
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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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Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
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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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Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
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A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
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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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Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
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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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[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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If you’re living for today, if you’re only dreaming about yesterday, it doesn’t work. You got to know that tomorrow is going to be better. Then you’re on your way.
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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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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.
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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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I’m a lifelong stutterer.
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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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I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
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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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