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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.

Bill Walton

Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
BILL WALTON

Disaster Follow Team
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
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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Ankles Hands Operations Two
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
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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Basketball Inspirational Opportunity
Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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Basketball Motivational Sports
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
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
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
Right now, you know, it’s not about the refs or anything else, it’s about hitting first, getting on the run and never looking back.
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Basketball Hitting Running
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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Avid Book Collector Passion
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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Basketball Friend Grateful Met 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
I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn’t speak at all. I was a very shy, reserved player and a very shy, reserved person. I found a safe place in life in basketball.
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Basketball Motivational Player
I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
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Get Health Long Well
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

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