When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
BILL WALTONWhen you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.
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That’s what makes it so fun to be on a team. You’re sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it’s going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.
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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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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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I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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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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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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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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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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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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When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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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 can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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