Yao 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.
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.
BILL WALTONI had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
BILL WALTONDuring the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
BILL WALTONThere are four pillars to happiness, which is the ultimate goal in life-to be happy. Health is first, family is second, home is third. That safe place where you can go to and regroup, be in a safe place by yourself start over.
BILL WALTONI might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I’ve had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.
BILL WALTONBob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana. So many of them are still around and still going strong. I go out to see them all the time.
BILL WALTONI’m mainstream. Always have been.
BILL WALTONThat’s what makes it so fun to be on a team. You’re sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it’s going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.
BILL WALTONI grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
BILL WALTONThere is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You’re talking about men vs. boys.
BILL WALTONWhere 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 WALTONWhen you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
BILL WALTONI 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 learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
BILL WALTONI learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
BILL WALTONThere 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.
BILL WALTON