I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
BILL WALTONDoug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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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Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else’s success?
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Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana. So many of them are still around and still going strong. I go out to see them all the time.
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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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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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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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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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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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Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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