Bill Walton
Tim Duncan's foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year's playoffs. That's not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Dream
I couldn't imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.Collection: Basketball
Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness. The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it allCollection: Skills
Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.Collection: Team
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.Collection: Team
Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.Collection: Player
If the UCLA teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s were subjected to the kind of scrutiny (other schools) have been, UCLA would probably have to forfeit about eight national championships and be on probation for the next 100 years.Collection: Team
A huge Chinese population here in... Houston.Collection: Chinese
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.Collection: Beautiful
Kenyon Martin is the 2nd best player in the Eastern Conference.Collection: Player
The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.Collection: Men
I mean, I'm 6-foot-11, I've got red hair, freckles, I'm a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I've got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I'm a Deadhead.Collection: Basketball
I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.Collection: Get Well
If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who's going to stop him?Collection: Jumpers
I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn't speak at all. I was a very shy, reserved player and a very shy, reserved person. I found a safe place in life in basketball.Collection: Motivational
At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player. I am a better person because of my failures and disgraces.Collection: Basketball
I'm a different person today than I was yesterday. I live for the moment and everything that happens in my life changes me.Collection: Life Changing
Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.Collection: Children
I went to my first show [of the Grateful Dead], got right up front and never left. The incredible excitement, the family, the spirit, the hope, the happiness, all the different things I love and live for in life are there. 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.Collection: Teamwork
My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.Collection: Church
Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle.Collection: Choices
If you're living for today, if you're only dreaming about yesterday, it doesn't work. You got to know that tomorrow is going to be better. Then you're on your way.Collection: Dream
What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.Collection: Funny
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.Collection: Teenager
I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.Collection: Inspire
I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Basketball
Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success?Collection: Happiness
I have always wanted to be part of something special, and when I got to Boston.. actually, when I bought, begged and pleaded my way onto the Celtics.. it was already a championship team. I was just glad to be able to sit there and cheer and to be Larry Bird's valet, to be sure that his shoes were fine and his uniform was folded neatly.Collection: Cheer
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.Collection: Dream
My relationship, my friendships with Grateful Dead, has shaped me. Our house is a shrine to all our musical heroes.Collection: Hero
I live by the motto of "chase your dream, make your dream your job, make your job your life."Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Dream
I love to play music. I'm terrible at it, but I love learning about it .Collection: Play
Why is Scottie Pippen taking a charge? Taking a charge is for people with no game!Collection: Games
You look at Vladimir Radmanovic, this guy is cut from stone. As if Michelangelo was reading and a lightening bolt flashed before him.Collection: Reading
When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defenseCollection: Defense
I 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.Collection: Dad
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.Collection: Player
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?Collection: Nba
The offensive presence of Greg Ostertag is quite overwhelming sometimes!Collection: Sometimes
I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.Collection: Summer
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.Collection: Children
[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, 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.Collection: Song
I'm mainstream. Always have been.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Basketball
Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can't do anything.Collection: Critical