Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
BILL WALTONKevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He’s already one of the greatest players to have played the game.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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I’m a lifelong stutterer.
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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 grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
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[Peter] Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I quickly gravitated to rock and roll music in the mid-’60s with the Grateful Dead,
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My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
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No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
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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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A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
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We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
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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 learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
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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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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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When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
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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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