Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else’s success?
BILL WALTONI’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.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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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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I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
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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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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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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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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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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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My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
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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 started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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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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I love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow up and become who they are is so incredibly special.
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In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.
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