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.
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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A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
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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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The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all
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It’s the most pleasurable experience in the world! When you’re on a great team and you get hot, your teammates milk you dry – they wear you out and there’s nothing like being on a great team.
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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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Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
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Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
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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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Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
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When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
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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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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
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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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