Music is critical in our lives and culture. It’s the inspiration that drives us. It’s also the window to our souls. It’s a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we’re going.
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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I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
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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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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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When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
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Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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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 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 only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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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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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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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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Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
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But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it’s the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan’s beard look good.
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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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It’s the most pleasurable experience in the world! When you’re on a great team and you get hot, your teammates milk you dry – they wear you out and there’s nothing like being on a great team.
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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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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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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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The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all
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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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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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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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Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
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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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