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 WALTONYao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside and out. The vision, the creativity, the gentleness of spirit … he has it all.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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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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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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Kevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He’s already one of the greatest players to have played the game.
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When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.
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No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
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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.
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Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
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I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
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Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
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But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it’s the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan’s beard look good.
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