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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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Bill Walton
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 5
Basketball Player
La Mesa
California
William Theodore Walton
William Theodore Walton III
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Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the love of power we have no chance of ever being successful.
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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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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.
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I love to play music. I'm terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
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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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Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle.
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I believe in science and evolution. I've been to the Grand Canyon.
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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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I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.
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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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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 all
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I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.
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Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
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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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Music is my life. It's inseparable from anything else that I do.
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When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks.
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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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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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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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