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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.

Bill Walton

I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
BILL WALTON

Dream Move Moving Sleep
During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
BILL WALTON

Concerts Constantly Courses Dead Grateful Player
I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
BILL WALTON

Inspire Music Power Values
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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Motivational Player
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.
BILL WALTON

Finding Forget never Talking Yourself
I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
BILL WALTON

Get Health Long Well
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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Foot Freckles Hair Mean
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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Factor Thinking Years
When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
BILL WALTON

Balls Defense Stomach
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.
BILL WALTON

Climbing Getting Back Hot
[Peter] Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I quickly gravitated to rock and roll music in the mid-’60s with the Grateful Dead,
BILL WALTON

Getting Grateful Ready Song Strong
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.
BILL WALTON

Book Grateful Teamwork
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.
BILL WALTON

Grateful Grow Up People
There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.
BILL WALTON

Fate Guarantees Life Simple
When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
BILL WALTON

Age Romantic Thinking
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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Crazy Fun

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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