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.
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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When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
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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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John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
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No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
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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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I’m mainstream. Always have been.
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When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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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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I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
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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 mean, I’m 6-foot-11, I’ve got red hair, freckles, I’m a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I’ve got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I’m a Deadhead.
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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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If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
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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’m a lifelong stutterer.
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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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I’m a different person today than I was yesterday. I live for the moment and everything that happens in my life changes me.
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Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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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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There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You’re talking about men vs. boys.
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I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
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You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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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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When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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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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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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