My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
BILL WALTONI 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.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.
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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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I had this fantastic collection of Grateful Dead T-shirts and live concert music the band had give me over all these years, decades of material, and when our boys became teenagers they started going through everything and wearing the shirts and listening to the music and that’s what the Grateful Dead is all about.
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I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all
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I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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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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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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I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
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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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Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
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I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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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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I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I’ve had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.
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