I 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 love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow up and become who they are is so incredibly special.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
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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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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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I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
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The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.
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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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Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.
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I 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.
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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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I’m a lifelong stutterer.
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If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
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We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
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