[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
BILL WALTONA lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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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I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
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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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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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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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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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We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
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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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I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
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If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
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Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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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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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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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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