Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
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 learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
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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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I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
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The NCAA is working night and day trying to get Jerry, but no one from the NCAA ever questioned me during my four years at UCLA!
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When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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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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It changes over the course of life, depending on how you’re feeling. There’s this incredible catalog of different songs, so it depends on what you’re hoping for, what your dream is and that song will come on.
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Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
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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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I’m a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.
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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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During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
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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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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
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