Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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 couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
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When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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I’m mainstream. Always have been.
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Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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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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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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I’m a lifelong stutterer.
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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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The NCAA is working night and day trying to get Jerry, but no one from the NCAA ever questioned me during my four years at UCLA!
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Right now, you know, it’s not about the refs or anything else, it’s about hitting first, getting on the run and never looking back.
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I hate to say anything that may hurt UCLA, but I can’t be quiet when I see what the NCAA is doing to Jerry Tarkanian only because he has a reputation for giving a second chance to many black athletes other coaches have branded as troublemakers.
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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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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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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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There are four pillars to happiness, which is the ultimate goal in life-to be happy. Health is first, family is second, home is third. That safe place where you can go to and regroup, be in a safe place by yourself start over.
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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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The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
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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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My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
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I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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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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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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During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
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The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all
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I had this fantastic collection of Grateful Dead T-shirts and live concert music the band had give me over all these years, decades of material, and when our boys became teenagers they started going through everything and wearing the shirts and listening to the music and that’s what the Grateful Dead is all about.
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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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