Jo Walton Quotes

We grew up without a television, so we constantly had music playing in our house.

When I'm at a show, I'm yelling and cheering. I'm with those guys [the Grateful Dead].

During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.

I like a lot of other music and listen to a lot of other music, but one of the greatest things about the Grateful Dead is they played all the time.

[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.

Yao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside and out. The vision, the creativity, the gentleness of spirit … he has it all.

There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You're talking about men vs. boys.

A huge Chinese population here in... Houston.

Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.

The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.

Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.

I'm mainstream. Always have been.

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

I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

Right now, you know, it's not about the refs or anything else, it's about hitting first, getting on the run and never looking back.

Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.

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.

I couldn't imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.

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.

Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball.

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.

Kenyon Martin is the 2nd best player in the Eastern Conference.

Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.

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.

Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.

Greg Ostertag is one of the top centers on this planet!

Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can't do anything.

Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.

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.

Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.

If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who's going to stop him?

You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.

My wife likes the hockey smell because its the smell of a warrior.

Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved.

Chemistrys a funny thing. It can be instantaneous, but it helps when you know someone.

If you don't know how to play hockey, learn. If you quit, get back out there.

You can't be trying to be funny. As an adult actor, sometimes I'll muddle it up by over-thinking things.

If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York reporters.

I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.

I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up Backstage magazine auditions and grinding.

I definitely would not need to insure my calves.

It'd be hard to be a lead actor if I didn't have lips. Those are tough to graft back on.

I think you have to have a personal connection, and that's what I am always looking to try to create: a personal way in to a story.

Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]

Of this blest man, let his just praise be given, Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [Not only be grateful for the good that you have but also for the bad you don't!]

I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.