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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

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
My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
BILL WALTON

Church Gym Wheelchair
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
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 couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Imaginer Life Playing
I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
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Inspire Music Power Values
I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
BILL WALTON

Legends Many Lakers Player Shaped
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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Ankles Hands Operations Two
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
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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Basketball Grow Up Ucla
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
When you find yourself talking about less and less and forgetting the love that you bring, never forget there are things you can replace but others you can not.
BILL WALTON

Finding Forget never Talking Yourself
Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It’s up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Funny Player
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
Tim Duncan’s foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year’s playoffs. That’s not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Factor Thinking Years
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 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.

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