I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
BILL WALTONI can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.
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I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn’t speak at all. I was a very shy, reserved player and a very shy, reserved person. I found a safe place in life in basketball.
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I’m mainstream. Always have been.
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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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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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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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No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
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If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
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There 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.
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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 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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I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
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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.
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There 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.
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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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