I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
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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When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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I mean, I’m 6-foot-11, I’ve got red hair, freckles, I’m a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I’ve got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I’m a Deadhead.
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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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I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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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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I love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow up and become who they are is so incredibly special.
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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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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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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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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
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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 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!
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No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
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