The NCAA is working night and day trying to get Jerry, but no one from the NCAA ever questioned me during my four years at UCLA!
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More Bill Walton Quotes
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Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
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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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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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I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.
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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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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.
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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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When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
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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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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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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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Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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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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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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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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