Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.
BILL WALTONSuccess 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 might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I’ve had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.
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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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In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.
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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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If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
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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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I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
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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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Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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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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My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
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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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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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