When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
BILL WALTONSuccess at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else’s success?
More Bill Walton Quotes
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Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana. So many of them are still around and still going strong. I go out to see them all the time.
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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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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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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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During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
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I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all
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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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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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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.
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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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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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