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.
BILL WALTONWhen I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
More Bill Walton Quotes
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No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
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Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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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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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 you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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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.
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The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all
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Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.
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I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn’t speak at all. I was a very shy, reserved player and a very shy, reserved person. I found a safe place in life in basketball.
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Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
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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 started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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I’m a different person today than I was yesterday. I live for the moment and everything that happens in my life changes me.
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I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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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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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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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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When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
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When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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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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The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I’m an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike.
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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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Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can’t do anything.
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