John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
BILL WALTONI 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.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
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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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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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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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I’ve got my iPod and I’ve got it on shuffle. If I’m not ready for one, I’ll click to the next one. My wife, Lori, and our children, Adam, Nate, Chris, and Luke, will all tell you that when I find one I like it can stay on repeat for weeks on end.
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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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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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I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
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I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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I’m a lifelong stutterer.
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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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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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When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
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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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