I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can sight read, can play by ear.
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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The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
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I like a lot of other music and listen to a lot of other music, but one of the greatest things about the Grateful Dead is they played all the time.
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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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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 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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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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Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
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Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else’s success?
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If you’re living for today, if you’re only dreaming about yesterday, it doesn’t work. You got to know that tomorrow is going to be better. Then you’re on your way.
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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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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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If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
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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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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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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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