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.
BILL WALTONBob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana. So many of them are still around and still going strong. I go out to see them all the time.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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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I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can sight read, can play by ear.
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[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 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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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.
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During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
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When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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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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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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I mean, I’m 6-foot-11, I’ve got red hair, freckles, I’m a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I’ve got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I’m a Deadhead.
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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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I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
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I went to my first show [of the Grateful Dead], got right up front and never left. The incredible excitement, the family, the spirit, the hope, the happiness, all the different things I love and live for in life are there.
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When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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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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Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
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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.
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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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I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
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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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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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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 couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
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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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