No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
BILL WALTONI grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can sight read, can play by ear.
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Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
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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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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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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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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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In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.
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Yao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside and out. The vision, the creativity, the gentleness of spirit … he has it all.
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[Peter] Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I quickly gravitated to rock and roll music in the mid-’60s with the Grateful Dead,
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I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
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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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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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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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Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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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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If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
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