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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.

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Bill Walton
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 5
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La Mesa
California
William Theodore Walton
William Theodore Walton III
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We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
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I believe in science and evolution. I've been to the Grand Canyon.
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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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The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
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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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I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
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You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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Greg Ostertag is one of the top centers on this planet!
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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.
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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. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.
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My bike is my gym, my wheelchair and my church all in one. I'd like to ride my bike all day long but I've got this thing called a job that keeps getting in the way.
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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.
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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.
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Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks.
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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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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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The offensive presence of Greg Ostertag is quite overwhelming sometimes!
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