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If the UCLA teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s were subjected to the kind of scrutiny (other schools) have been, UCLA would probably have to forfeit about eight national championships and be on probation for the next 100 years.

Bill Walton

[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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Inspiration Music Term Want
Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
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Bird Skills Strenght
I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
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Dream Move Moving Sleep
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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Basketball Inspirational Opportunity
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
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Art Athletic Literature Parent
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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Grateful Listen Music Other
I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
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Inspire Music Power Values
Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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Basketball Bills Player
There are four pillars to happiness, which is the ultimate goal in life-to be happy. Health is first, family is second, home is third. That safe place where you can go to and regroup, be in a safe place by yourself start over.
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Dream Home Starting
I’m mainstream. Always have been.
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Always Basketball Mainstream
I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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Grateful Love School Summer
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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Happen People Responsibility Television
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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Catalog Dream Feelings Incredible Song
When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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Age Romantic Thinking
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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Grateful Grow Up People
Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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Basketball Funny Planets
I love to play music. I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
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Learning Play Terrible
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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Boys Collection Fantastic Grateful Teenager
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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Book Grateful Teamwork
I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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Believe Canyons Evolution
No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
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Basketball Game Matter Something
That’s what I tried to share in this book, Back From The Dead, the ability to learn, to dream, to hope. In a world that is far too often selling fear and death, I’m selling hope and life and success and that’s why I chose to be part of the Grateful Dead.
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Book Dream Grateful
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.
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Basketball Factor Thinking Years
The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all
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Athetisicm Magic Toughness Vision
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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Changing Life Pain Running
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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Legends Many Lakers Player Shaped
I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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Hemisphere Looks Sports

If the UCLA teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s were subjected to the kind of scrutiny (other schools) have been, UCLA would probably have to forfeit about eight national championships and be on probation for the next 100 years.

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If the UCLA teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s were subjected to the kind of scrutiny (other schools) have been, UCLA would probably have to forfeit about eight national championships and be on probation for the next 100 years.

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