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The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I'm an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike.

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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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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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You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Kenyon Martin is the 2nd best player in the Eastern Conference.
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When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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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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If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who's going to stop him?
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Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.
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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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The offensive presence of Greg Ostertag is quite overwhelming sometimes!
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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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