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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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Bill Walton
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 5
Basketball Player
La Mesa
California
William Theodore Walton
William Theodore Walton III
Life
Ball
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The medical device tags that are being used [in the USA] are a terrible mistake. Why are we taxing people for trying to save lives and trying to make lives better, make peoples lives healthier? Those taxes should be placed on alcohol, tobacco, junk food, guns. Those are all the things that destroy health.
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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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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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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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I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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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 live by the motto of chase your dream, make your dream your job, make your job your life.
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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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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've had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don't work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.
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The offensive presence of Greg Ostertag is quite overwhelming sometimes!
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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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I love to play music. I'm terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
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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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When I'm at a show, I'm yelling and cheering. I'm with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
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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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Why is Scottie Pippen taking a charge? Taking a charge is for people with no game!
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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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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.
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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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