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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.

Bill Walton

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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Beautiful Creativity Game Happen
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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Country Missing Shots
The joy, the optimism, the teamwork, the experimentation, the exploration, the curiosity. No band has inspired more artwork, no band has inspired more books. No band has ever inspired a more loyal following and I’m involved in all of that stuff.
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Artwork Banf Exploration Inspire Joy More Teamwork
I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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Believe Canyons Evolution
During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
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Concerts Constantly Courses Dead Grateful Player
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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Basketball Friend Grateful Met Player
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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Anything Effects Mean People Understand
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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Basketball Crazy Fun
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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Art Athletic Literature Parent
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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Basketball Inspirational Men Quality
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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Beating Boys Dream Team
I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
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Basketball Imaginer Life Playing
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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Basketball Country Growing Teamwork
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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Book Dream Grateful
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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Anything Critical Lives Our Possible
Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
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Disaster Follow Team
Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It’s up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.
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Basketball Funny Player
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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Inspiration Reflection Soul
Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
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Conferences Eastern Player
In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.
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Basketball Greatest Player Team
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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Grateful Listen Music Other
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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Catalog Dream Feelings Incredible Song
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.
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Grateful Grow Up People
My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
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Church Gym Wheelchair
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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Happiness Highest Levels
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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Basketball Grow Up Ucla
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.
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Climbing Getting Back Hot

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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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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