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.
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.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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If the UCLA teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s were subjected to the kind of scrutiny (other schools) have been, UCLA would probably have to forfeit about eight national championships and be on probation for the next 100 years.
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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 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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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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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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Tim Duncan’s foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year’s playoffs. That’s not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball.
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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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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.
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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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I’m a different person today than I was yesterday. I live for the moment and everything that happens in my life changes me.
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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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Bob 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.
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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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