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You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.

Bill Walton

I’ve got my iPod and I’ve got it on shuffle. If I’m not ready for one, I’ll click to the next one. My wife, Lori, and our children, Adam, Nate, Chris, and Luke, will all tell you that when I find one I like it can stay on repeat for weeks on end.
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Children Ipods Shuffle Wife
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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Art Athletic Literature Parent
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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Bills Else Game People
Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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League Player Unathletic
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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Changing Life Live Moment Yesterday
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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Happiness Highest Levels
The NCAA is working night and day trying to get Jerry, but no one from the NCAA ever questioned me during my four years at UCLA!
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Basketball Ncaa Trying Ucla Working
There are four pillars to happiness, which is the ultimate goal in life-to be happy. Health is first, family is second, home is third. That safe place where you can go to and regroup, be in a safe place by yourself start over.
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Dream Home Starting
No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.
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Basketball Nba Years
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
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Basketball Change Years
Life is easy when you’re hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.
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Climbing Getting Back Hot
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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Dad Play Sight
I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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Believe Canyons Evolution
The joy, the optimism, the teamwork, the experimentation, the exploration, the curiosity. No band has inspired more artwork, no band has inspired more books. No band has ever inspired a more loyal following and I’m involved in all of that stuff.
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Artwork Banf Exploration Inspire Joy More Teamwork
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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Boys Collection Fantastic Grateful Teenager
Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
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Conferences Eastern Player
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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Grateful Listen Music Other
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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Basketball Funny Player
That’s what I tried to share in this book, Back From The Dead, the ability to learn, to dream, to hope. In a world that is far too often selling fear and death, I’m selling hope and life and success and that’s why I chose to be part of the Grateful Dead.
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Book Dream Grateful
What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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Funny Pathetic Play
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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Football Future Games Player
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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Fate Guarantees Life Simple
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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Basketball Foot Freckles Hair Mean
I’m a lifelong stutterer.
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Life Lifelong Slutterer
When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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Balls Defense Stomach
Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
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Bird Skills Strenght
During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
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Concerts Constantly Courses Dead Grateful Player

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