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 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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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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Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
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You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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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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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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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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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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I love to play music. I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
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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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There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.
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Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
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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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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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My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
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