I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
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.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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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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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That’s what makes it so fun to be on a team. You’re sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it’s going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.
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The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
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The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.
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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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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 can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
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I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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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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Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
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Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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I’m mainstream. Always have been.
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I’m a lifelong stutterer.
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You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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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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Kevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He’s already one of the greatest players to have played the game.
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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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It’s the most pleasurable experience in the world! When you’re on a great team and you get hot, your teammates milk you dry – they wear you out and there’s nothing like being on a great team.
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Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
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I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
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My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
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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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When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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