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.
BILL WALTONI’m a different person today than I was yesterday. I live for the moment and everything that happens in my life changes me.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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 learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
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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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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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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.
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Bob 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.
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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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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
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The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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If the UCLA teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s were subjected to the kind of scrutiny (other schools) have been, UCLA would probably have to forfeit about eight national championships and be on probation for the next 100 years.
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John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
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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.
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I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
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