Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
BILL WALTONI 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.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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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When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
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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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I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
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It changes over the course of life, depending on how you’re feeling. There’s this incredible catalog of different songs, so it depends on what you’re hoping for, what your dream is and that song will come on.
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The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.
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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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I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
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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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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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The joy, the optimism, the teamwork, the experimentation, the exploration, the curiosity. No band has inspired more artwork, no band has inspired more books. No band has ever inspired a more loyal following and I’m involved in all of that stuff.
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