I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
BILL WALTONThere 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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During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
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But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it’s the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan’s beard look good.
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I 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.
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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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If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
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I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I’ve had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
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