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There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.

Bill Walton

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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Game Go Many Out Players Time Ucla
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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Motivational Player
Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.
BILL WALTON

Country Missing Shots
You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Sports Winning
No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Game Matter Something
I’m a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Friend Grateful Met Player
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.
BILL WALTON

Artwork Banf Exploration Inspire Joy More Teamwork
I mean, I’m 6-foot-11, I’ve got red hair, freckles, I’m a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I’ve got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I’m a Deadhead.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Foot Freckles Hair Mean
I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
BILL WALTON

Inspire Music Power Values
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.
BILL WALTON

Avid Book Collector Passion
My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
BILL WALTON

Church Gym Wheelchair
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
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
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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Nba Years
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
When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
BILL WALTON

Age Romantic Thinking

There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.

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