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Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

Bill Walton

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
[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,
BILL WALTON

Getting Grateful Ready Song Strong
During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
BILL WALTON

Concerts Constantly Courses Dead Grateful Player
I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
BILL WALTON

Legends Many Lakers Player Shaped
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
When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
BILL WALTON

Balls Defense Stomach
I love to play music. I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
BILL WALTON

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

Basketball Funny Planets
Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
BILL WALTON

Bird Skills Strenght
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.
BILL WALTON

Eight Kind School Team Ucla
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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Hitting Running
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
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?
BILL WALTON

Bills Else Game People
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.
BILL WALTON

Boys Collection Fantastic Grateful Teenager
My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
BILL WALTON

Church Gym Wheelchair
Kevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He’s already one of the greatest players to have played the game.
BILL WALTON

Football Future Games Player

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