Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
BILL WALTONLife 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.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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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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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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I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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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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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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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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Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
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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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If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
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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.
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I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
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Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
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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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My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain.
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