I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I’ve had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.
BILL WALTONMick 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.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
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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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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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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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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.
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But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it’s the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan’s beard look good.
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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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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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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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When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.
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No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
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I’m a different person today than I was yesterday. I live for the moment and everything that happens in my life changes me.
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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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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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