Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
BILL WALTONLife 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.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Yao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside and out. The vision, the creativity, the gentleness of spirit … he has it all.
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I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
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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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Tim Duncan’s foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year’s playoffs. That’s not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball.
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No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
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When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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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 fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.
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