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.
BILL WALTONI’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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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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Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can’t do anything.
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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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It changes over the course of life, depending on how you’re feeling. There’s this incredible catalog of different songs, so it depends on what you’re hoping for, what your dream is and that song will come on.
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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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When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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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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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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The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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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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