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I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.

Bill Walton

Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
BILL WALTON

Disaster Follow Team
When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
BILL WALTON

Deliberating Life Pain Years
Life is easy when you’re hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.
BILL WALTON

Climbing Getting Back Hot
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 WALTON

Anything Athlete Hate Hurt
I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
BILL WALTON

Grateful Love School Summer
A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
BILL WALTON

Anything Effects Mean People Understand
What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
BILL WALTON

Funny Pathetic Play
You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Sports Winning
Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can’t do anything.
BILL WALTON

Anything Critical Lives Our Possible
Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
BILL WALTON

Conferences Eastern Player
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
BILL WALTON

Art Athletic Literature Parent
I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Imaginer Life Playing
My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain.
BILL WALTON

Changing Life Pain Running
I went to my first show [of the Grateful Dead], got right up front and never left. The incredible excitement, the family, the spirit, the hope, the happiness, all the different things I love and live for in life are there.
BILL WALTON

Book Grateful Teamwork
I’m a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Friend Grateful Met Player
Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Grow Up Ucla

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