The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I’m an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike.
BILL WALTONI had this fantastic collection of Grateful Dead T-shirts and live concert music the band had give me over all these years, decades of material, and when our boys became teenagers they started going through everything and wearing the shirts and listening to the music and that’s what the Grateful Dead is all about.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else’s success?
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A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
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When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.
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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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Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
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Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.
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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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I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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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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[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,
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You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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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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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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