Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
BILL WALTONBob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana. So many of them are still around and still going strong. I go out to see them all the time.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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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Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It’s up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.
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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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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.
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I’m a different person today than I was yesterday. I live for the moment and everything that happens in my life changes me.
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I’m a lifelong stutterer.
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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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I hate to say anything that may hurt UCLA, but I can’t be quiet when I see what the NCAA is doing to Jerry Tarkanian only because he has a reputation for giving a second chance to many black athletes other coaches have branded as troublemakers.
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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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The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all
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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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Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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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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No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.
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I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.
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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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I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
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There are four pillars to happiness, which is the ultimate goal in life-to be happy. Health is first, family is second, home is third. That safe place where you can go to and regroup, be in a safe place by yourself start over.
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Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
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My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
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