I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
BILL WALTONNo 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.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
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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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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
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You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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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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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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Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
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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 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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But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it’s the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan’s beard look good.
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Life is easy when you’re hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.
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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 only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
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