We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
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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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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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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No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
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I’m mainstream. Always have been.
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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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Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
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There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You’re talking about men vs. boys.
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My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
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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 believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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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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I’m a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.
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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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Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
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Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
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