Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else’s success?
BILL WALTONSuccess at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else’s success?
BILL WALTONI can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
BILL WALTONDoug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
BILL WALTONI might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I’ve had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.
BILL WALTONBut 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.
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.
BILL WALTONIn 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 WALTONKevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He’s already one of the greatest players to have played the game.
BILL WALTONI 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 WALTONI learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
BILL WALTONLife is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
BILL WALTONSteve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
BILL WALTONHealth is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can’t do anything.
BILL WALTONNever rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.
BILL WALTON[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,
BILL WALTONTracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
BILL WALTON