I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
BILL WALTONI 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.
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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Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
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It’s the most pleasurable experience in the world! When you’re on a great team and you get hot, your teammates milk you dry – they wear you out and there’s nothing like being on a great team.
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Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can’t do anything.
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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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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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I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
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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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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.
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I’m a lifelong stutterer.
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When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I’ve had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.
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I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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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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Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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