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 WALTONBeing 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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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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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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I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I’ve had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.
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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 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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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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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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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
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Tim Duncan’s foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year’s playoffs. That’s not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball.
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Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?
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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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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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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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The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
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