When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
BILL WALTONIn basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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I went to my first show [of the Grateful Dead], got right up front and never left. The incredible excitement, the family, the spirit, the hope, the happiness, all the different things I love and live for in life are there.
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I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
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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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Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
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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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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’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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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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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.
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I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
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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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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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