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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?

Bill Walton

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Inspirational Opportunity
Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
BILL WALTON

Disaster Follow Team
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.
BILL WALTON

Business Encompasses Skills Sports Today
Music is critical in our lives and culture. It’s the inspiration that drives us. It’s also the window to our souls. It’s a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we’re going.
BILL WALTON

Inspiration Reflection Soul
I love to play music. I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
BILL WALTON

Learning Play Terrible
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
BILL WALTON

Art Athletic Literature Parent
I’ve had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don’t work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.
BILL WALTON

Ankles Hands Operations Two
Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Grow Up Ucla
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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Country Growing Teamwork
I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
BILL WALTON

Get Health Long Well
Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
BILL WALTON

Else Inseparable Life Music
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
[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,
BILL WALTON

Getting Grateful Ready Song Strong
I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
BILL WALTON

Inspire Music Power Values
Life 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 WALTON

Climbing Getting Back Hot
Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can’t do anything.
BILL WALTON

Anything Critical Lives Our Possible

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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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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