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.
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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Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.
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Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?
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When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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I went to my first show [of the Grateful Dead], got right up front and never left. The incredible excitement, the family, the spirit, the hope, the happiness, all the different things I love and live for in life are there.
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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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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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Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
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The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.
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No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
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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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I’m mainstream. Always have been.
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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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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 believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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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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During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
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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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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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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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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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When you find yourself talking about less and less and forgetting the love that you bring, never forget there are things you can replace but others you can not.
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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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When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
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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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