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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?

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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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Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success?
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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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Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.
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When I'm at a show, I'm yelling and cheering. I'm with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
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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 lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.
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I'm a lifelong stutterer.
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Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
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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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My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
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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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Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.
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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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I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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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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Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
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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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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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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.
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