I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
BILL WALTONThe 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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During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
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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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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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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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The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I’m an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike.
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I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
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I’m a lifelong stutterer.
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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
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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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Kevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He’s already one of the greatest players to have played the game.
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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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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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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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