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.
BILL WALTONI 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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Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.
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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’m a lifelong stutterer.
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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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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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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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Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.
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Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
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There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You’re talking about men vs. boys.
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I’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.
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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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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 you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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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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