Tim Duncan’s foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year’s playoffs. That’s not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball.
BILL WALTONI started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.
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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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I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn’t speak at all. I was a very shy, reserved player and a very shy, reserved person. I found a safe place in life in basketball.
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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.
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I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
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Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
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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.
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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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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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Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.
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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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The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all
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I’ve had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don’t work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.
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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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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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