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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.

Bill Walton

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
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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Inspiration Reflection Soul
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
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.
BILL WALTON

Catalog Dream Feelings Incredible Song
Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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Basketball Bills Player
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
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Basketball Change Years
I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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Hemisphere Looks Sports
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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Book Dream Grateful
Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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Else Inseparable Life Music
Kevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He’s already one of the greatest players to have played the game.
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Football Future Games Player
Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else’s success?
BILL WALTON

Happiness Highest Levels
Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
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Bird Skills Strenght
I’m mainstream. Always have been.
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Always Basketball Mainstream
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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Grateful Grow Up People
Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
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Disaster Follow Team
Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
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Aspect Games Used
Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.
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Championship Children Congratulations
I’m a lifelong stutterer.
BILL WALTON

Life Lifelong Slutterer
[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,
BILL WALTON

Getting Grateful Ready Song Strong
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
Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.
BILL WALTON

Country Missing Shots
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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Art Athletic Literature Parent
The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
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Cliffs Even Men Unstoppable
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
I’m a different person today than I was yesterday. I live for the moment and everything that happens in my life changes me.
BILL WALTON

Changing Life Live Moment Yesterday
Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
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Conferences Eastern Player
Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can’t do anything.
BILL WALTON

Anything Critical Lives Our Possible

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