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
-
-
The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.
BILL WALTON -
My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
BILL WALTON -
Kevin 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 WALTON -
[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
BILL WALTON -
Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.
BILL WALTON -
It changes over the course of life, depending on how you’re feeling. There’s this incredible catalog of different songs, so it depends on what you’re hoping for, what your dream is and that song will come on.
BILL WALTON -
Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
BILL WALTON -
Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
BILL WALTON -
I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I’ve had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.
BILL WALTON -
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 -
I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.
BILL WALTON -
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.
BILL WALTON -
I’m a lifelong stutterer.
BILL WALTON -
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.
BILL WALTON -
Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.
BILL WALTON