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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.

Bill Walton

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.
BILL WALTON

Climbing Getting Back Hot
Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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Else Inseparable Life Music
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.
BILL WALTON

Book Grateful Teamwork
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
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Art Athletic Literature Parent
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
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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Bills Else Game People
[Peter] Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I quickly gravitated to rock and roll music in the mid-’60s with the Grateful Dead,
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Getting Grateful Ready Song Strong
I hate to say anything that may hurt UCLA, but I can’t be quiet when I see what the NCAA is doing to Jerry Tarkanian only because he has a reputation for giving a second chance to many black athletes other coaches have branded as troublemakers.
BILL WALTON

Anything Athlete Hate Hurt
My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
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Church Gym Wheelchair
Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.
BILL WALTON

Championship Children Congratulations
I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
BILL WALTON

Grateful Love School Summer
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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Greatest Player Team
I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Imaginer Life Playing
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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Fate Guarantees Life Simple
Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
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Aspect Games Used
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

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