Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
BILL WALTONThe passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I’m an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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[Peter] Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I quickly gravitated to rock and roll music in the mid-’60s with the Grateful Dead,
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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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Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
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Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.
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I’m mainstream. Always have been.
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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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Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
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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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During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
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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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My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
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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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Where 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?
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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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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.
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