I love to play music. I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
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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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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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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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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I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
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The NCAA is working night and day trying to get Jerry, but no one from the NCAA ever questioned me during my four years at UCLA!
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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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It 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.
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I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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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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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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You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
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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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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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