I’m a lifelong stutterer.
BILL WALTONMy 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.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
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I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
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The NCAA is working night and day trying to get Jerry, but no one from the NCAA ever questioned me during my four years at UCLA!
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I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
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I love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow up and become who they are is so incredibly special.
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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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John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
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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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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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Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.
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I like a lot of other music and listen to a lot of other music, but one of the greatest things about the Grateful Dead is they played all the time.
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There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You’re talking about men vs. boys.
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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.
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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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