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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.

Bill Walton

I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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Believe Canyons Evolution
There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You’re talking about men vs. boys.
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Beating Boys Dream Team
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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Basketball Factor Thinking Years
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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Happiness Highest Levels
Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can’t do anything.
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Anything Critical Lives Our Possible
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
The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
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Cliffs Even Men Unstoppable
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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Legends Many Lakers Player Shaped
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.
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Climbing Getting Back Hot
We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
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Basketball Inspirational Men Quality
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
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
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
Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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Basketball Bills Player
Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
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Aspect Games Used
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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Anything Athlete Hate Hurt
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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Artwork Banf Exploration Inspire Joy More Teamwork
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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Changing Life Pain Running
No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
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Basketball Game Matter Something
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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Deliberating Life Pain Years
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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Football Future Games Player
I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
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Basketball Imaginer Life Playing
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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Basketball Game Go Many Out Players Time Ucla
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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Basketball Crazy Fun
Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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Basketball Funny Planets
[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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Inspiration Music Term Want
During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
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Concerts Constantly Courses Dead Grateful Player

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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