I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
BILL WALTONI’m a different person today than I was yesterday. I live for the moment and everything that happens in my life changes me.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
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I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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I’m mainstream. Always have been.
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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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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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When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
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It’s the most pleasurable experience in the world! When you’re on a great team and you get hot, your teammates milk you dry – they wear you out and there’s nothing like being on a great team.
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There are four pillars to happiness, which is the ultimate goal in life-to be happy. Health is first, family is second, home is third. That safe place where you can go to and regroup, be in a safe place by yourself start over.
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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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A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
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Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
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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.
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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 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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During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
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There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.
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Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
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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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You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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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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