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 WALTONPatrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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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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.
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I’m a lifelong stutterer.
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Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.
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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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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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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.
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Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.
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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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The joy, the optimism, the teamwork, the experimentation, the exploration, the curiosity. No band has inspired more artwork, no band has inspired more books. No band has ever inspired a more loyal following and I’m involved in all of that stuff.
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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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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.
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If the UCLA teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s were subjected to the kind of scrutiny (other schools) have been, UCLA would probably have to forfeit about eight national championships and be on probation for the next 100 years.
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I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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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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