I’ve got my iPod and I’ve got it on shuffle. If I’m not ready for one, I’ll click to the next one. My wife, Lori, and our children, Adam, Nate, Chris, and Luke, will all tell you that when I find one I like it can stay on repeat for weeks on end.
BILL WALTONDuring the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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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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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Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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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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If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
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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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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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I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
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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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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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When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
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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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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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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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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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If the UCLA teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s were subjected to the kind of scrutiny (other schools) have been, UCLA would probably have to forfeit about eight national championships and be on probation for the next 100 years.
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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 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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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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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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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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I’ve had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don’t work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.
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Kevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He’s already one of the greatest players to have played the game.
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