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.
BILL WALTONThe only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
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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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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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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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The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.
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When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I’ve had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.
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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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My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
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My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain.
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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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If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
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I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
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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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I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
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When you find yourself talking about less and less and forgetting the love that you bring, never forget there are things you can replace but others you can not.
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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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You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
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No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
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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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[Peter] Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I quickly gravitated to rock and roll music in the mid-’60s with the Grateful Dead,
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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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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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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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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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