Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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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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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Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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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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I hate to say anything that may hurt UCLA, but I can’t be quiet when I see what the NCAA is doing to Jerry Tarkanian only because he has a reputation for giving a second chance to many black athletes other coaches have branded as troublemakers.
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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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I’m mainstream. Always have been.
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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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