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I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.

Bill Walton

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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Motivational Player
I’ve got my iPod and I’ve got it on shuffle. If I’m not ready for one, I’ll click to the next one. My wife, Lori, and our children, Adam, Nate, Chris, and Luke, will all tell you that when I find one I like it can stay on repeat for weeks on end.
BILL WALTON

Children Ipods Shuffle Wife
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
BILL WALTON

Art Athletic Literature Parent
Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else’s success?
BILL WALTON

Happiness Highest Levels
I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Imaginer Life Playing
Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
BILL WALTON

Disaster Follow Team
When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
BILL WALTON

Deliberating Life Pain Years
The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
BILL WALTON

Cliffs Even Men Unstoppable
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.
BILL WALTON

Hot Pleasurable Team World
A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
BILL WALTON

Anything Effects Mean People Understand
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
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
When you find yourself talking about less and less and forgetting the love that you bring, never forget there are things you can replace but others you can not.
BILL WALTON

Finding Forget never Talking Yourself
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.
BILL WALTON

Dream Home Starting
Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.
BILL WALTON

Country Missing Shots
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

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