Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else’s success?
BILL WALTONMusic is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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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Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
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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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It’s the most pleasurable experience in the world! When you’re on a great team and you get hot, your teammates milk you dry – they wear you out and there’s nothing like being on a great team.
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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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I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
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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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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all
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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 to play music. I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
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I’m a lifelong stutterer.
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When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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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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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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