When you find yourself talking about less and less and forgetting the love that you bring, never forget there are things you can replace but others you can not.
BILL WALTONThe visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all
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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 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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Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else’s success?
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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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[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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Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.
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I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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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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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 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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My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
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Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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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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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.
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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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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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Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.
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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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But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it’s the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan’s beard look good.
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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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When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
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When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
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If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
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