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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 Walton

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
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Change Years
When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
BILL WALTON

Cheer Grateful Yelling
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.
BILL WALTON

Catalog Dream Feelings Incredible Song
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
John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
BILL WALTON

Basketball Civilization Country
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 WALTON

Beautiful Creativity Game Happen
If you’re living for today, if you’re only dreaming about yesterday, it doesn’t work. You got to know that tomorrow is going to be better. Then you’re on your way.
BILL WALTON

Dream Live Today Yesterday
Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.
BILL WALTON

Business Encompasses Skills Sports Today
I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
BILL WALTON

Hemisphere Looks Sports
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
I’m a different person today than I was yesterday. I live for the moment and everything that happens in my life changes me.
BILL WALTON

Changing Life Live Moment Yesterday
I mean, I’m 6-foot-11, I’ve got red hair, freckles, I’m a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I’ve got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I’m a Deadhead.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Foot Freckles Hair Mean
I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can sight read, can play by ear.
BILL WALTON

Dad Play Sight
Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
BILL WALTON

Basketball Funny Planets
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

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