I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
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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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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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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My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
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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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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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That’s what makes it so fun to be on a team. You’re sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it’s going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.
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I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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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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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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I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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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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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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Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?
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I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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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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