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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.

Bill Walton

The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I’m an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike.
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Avid Book Collector Passion
When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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Age Romantic Thinking
I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can sight read, can play by ear.
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Dad Play Sight
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
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
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Basketball Change Years
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
[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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Inspiration Music Term Want
I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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Hemisphere Looks Sports
I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
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Get Health Long Well
I mean, I’m 6-foot-11, I’ve got red hair, freckles, I’m a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I’ve got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I’m a Deadhead.
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Basketball Foot Freckles Hair Mean
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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Dream Home Starting
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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Children Ipods Shuffle Wife
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
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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Boys Collection Fantastic Grateful Teenager
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
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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Football Future Games Player
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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Book Grateful Teamwork
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
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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Bills Else Game People
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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Basketball Hitting Running
I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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Grateful Love School Summer
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 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
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 can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
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Dream Move Moving Sleep
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
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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Fate Guarantees Life Simple

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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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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