Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
BILL WALTONWhere 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?
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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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I’m a different person today than I was yesterday. I live for the moment and everything that happens in my life changes me.
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When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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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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You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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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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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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There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.
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I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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I love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow up and become who they are is so incredibly special.
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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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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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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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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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If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
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