I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
BILL WALTONI might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I’ve had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana. So many of them are still around and still going strong. I go out to see them all the time.
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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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The NCAA is working night and day trying to get Jerry, but no one from the NCAA ever questioned me during my four years at UCLA!
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I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
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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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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.
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That’s what makes it so fun to be on a team. You’re sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it’s going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.
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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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That’s what I tried to share in this book, Back From The Dead, the ability to learn, to dream, to hope. In a world that is far too often selling fear and death, I’m selling hope and life and success and that’s why I chose to be part of the Grateful Dead.
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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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The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
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We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
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Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
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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.
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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.
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