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.
BILL WALTONIt’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.
BILL WALTONThat’s what I tried to share in this book, Back From The Dead, the ability to learn, to dream, to hope. In a world that is far too often selling fear and death, I’m selling hope and life and success and that’s why I chose to be part of the Grateful Dead.
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.
BILL WALTONThere 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 WALTONHealth is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can’t do anything.
BILL WALTONJohn Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
BILL WALTONWhen I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
BILL WALTONI have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
BILL WALTONWhen you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
BILL WALTONIt changes over the course of life, depending on how you’re feeling. There’s this incredible catalog of different songs, so it depends on what you’re hoping for, what your dream is and that song will come on.
BILL WALTONDoug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
BILL WALTONIf 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.
BILL WALTONI 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 WALTONI’m mainstream. Always have been.
BILL WALTONI couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
BILL WALTONI grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
BILL WALTON