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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.

Bill Walton

I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
BILL WALTON

Hemisphere Looks Sports
There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.
BILL WALTON

Fate Guarantees Life Simple
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
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
Kevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He’s already one of the greatest players to have played the game.
BILL WALTON

Football Future Games Player
Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
BILL WALTON

Bird Skills Strenght
Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.
BILL WALTON

Championship Children Congratulations
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Change Years
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.
BILL WALTON

Dad Play Sight
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’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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Friend Grateful Met Player
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
Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
BILL WALTON

Else Inseparable Life Music
John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
BILL WALTON

Basketball Civilization Country
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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Country Growing Teamwork
I went to my first show [of the Grateful Dead], got right up front and never left. The incredible excitement, the family, the spirit, the hope, the happiness, all the different things I love and live for in life are there.
BILL WALTON

Book Grateful Teamwork

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’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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