Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
BILL WALTONI started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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 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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John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
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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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When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I’m an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike.
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I’m mainstream. Always have been.
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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.
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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
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We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
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But 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.
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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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