Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
BILL WALTONBob 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.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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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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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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In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.
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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.
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No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
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Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can’t do anything.
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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.
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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.
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Yao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside and out. The vision, the creativity, the gentleness of spirit … he has it all.
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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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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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Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
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I’m a lifelong stutterer.
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