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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.

Bill Walton

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
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 a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
BILL WALTON

Get Health Long Well
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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Crazy Fun
It changes over the course of life, depending on how you’re feeling. There’s this incredible catalog of different songs, so it depends on what you’re hoping for, what your dream is and that song will come on.
BILL WALTON

Catalog Dream Feelings Incredible Song
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
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
I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
BILL WALTON

Believe Canyons Evolution
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.
BILL WALTON

Dad Play Sight
[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
Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can’t do anything.
BILL WALTON

Anything Critical Lives Our Possible
When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
BILL WALTON

Cheer Grateful Yelling
John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
BILL WALTON

Basketball Civilization Country
Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else’s success?
BILL WALTON

Happiness Highest Levels
The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.
BILL WALTON

Happen People Responsibility Television
I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
BILL WALTON

Inspire Music Power Values

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 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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