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I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.

Bill Walton

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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Deliberating Life Pain Years
I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
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Inspire Music Power Values
Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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Basketball Funny Planets
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!
BILL WALTON

Basketball Ncaa Trying Ucla Working
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
Right now, you know, it’s not about the refs or anything else, it’s about hitting first, getting on the run and never looking back.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Hitting Running
Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.
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Championship Children Congratulations
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
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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Hot Pleasurable Team World
No 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.
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Basketball Nba Years
If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
BILL WALTON

Going Johnson Jumpers
I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
BILL WALTON

Legends Many Lakers Player Shaped
I 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.
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Basketball Country Growing Teamwork
I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
BILL WALTON

Believe Canyons Evolution
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 a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
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Get Health Long Well
Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
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Conferences Eastern Player
Kevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He’s already one of the greatest players to have played the game.
BILL WALTON

Football Future Games Player
Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
BILL WALTON

Bird Skills Strenght
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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Beautiful Creativity Game Happen
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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Bills Else Game People
Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
BILL WALTON

Disaster Follow Team
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Change Years
I’m a different person today than I was yesterday. I live for the moment and everything that happens in my life changes me.
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Changing Life Live Moment Yesterday
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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Friend Grateful Met Player
The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
BILL WALTON

Cliffs Even Men Unstoppable
I hate to say anything that may hurt UCLA, but I can’t be quiet when I see what the NCAA is doing to Jerry Tarkanian only because he has a reputation for giving a second chance to many black athletes other coaches have branded as troublemakers.
BILL WALTON

Anything Athlete Hate Hurt

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