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I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.

Bill Walton

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.
BILL WALTON

Avid Book Collector Passion
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.
BILL WALTON

Ankles Hands Operations Two
Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else’s success?
BILL WALTON

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

Art Athletic Literature Parent
I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
BILL WALTON

Believe Canyons Evolution
No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Game Matter Something
I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Imaginer Life Playing
Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Grow Up Ucla
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.
BILL WALTON

Beautiful Creativity Game Happen
Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
BILL WALTON

Conferences Eastern Player
Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
BILL WALTON

League Player Unathletic
[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
BILL WALTON

Inspiration Music Term Want
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.
BILL WALTON

Boys Collection Fantastic Grateful Teenager
When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
BILL WALTON

Cheer Grateful Yelling
I’m a lifelong stutterer.
BILL WALTON

Life Lifelong Slutterer
The NCAA is working night and day trying to get Jerry, but no one from the NCAA ever questioned me during my four years at UCLA!
BILL WALTON

Basketball Ncaa Trying Ucla Working

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