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 WALTONBasketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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The joy, the optimism, the teamwork, the experimentation, the exploration, the curiosity. No band has inspired more artwork, no band has inspired more books. No band has ever inspired a more loyal following and I’m involved in all of that stuff.
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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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I’ve had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don’t work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.
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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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I love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow up and become who they are is so incredibly special.
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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.
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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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Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can’t do anything.
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I’m a different person today than I was yesterday. I live for the moment and everything that happens in my life changes me.
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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 had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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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.
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No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.
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I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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