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I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.

Bill Walton

Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Grow Up Ucla
I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
BILL WALTON

Get Health Long Well
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.
BILL WALTON

Boys Collection Fantastic Grateful Teenager
My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
BILL WALTON

Church Gym Wheelchair
I’m a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Friend Grateful Met Player
Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can’t do anything.
BILL WALTON

Anything Critical Lives Our Possible
I 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 WALTON

Basketball Foot Freckles Hair Mean
You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Sports Winning
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
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
Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.
BILL WALTON

Championship Children Congratulations
$Bill Walton Quote - I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I’ve had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.$

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

Basketball Sports Stress
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
If you’re living for today, if you’re only dreaming about yesterday, it doesn’t work. You got to know that tomorrow is going to be better. Then you’re on your way.
BILL WALTON

Dream Live Today Yesterday
The joy, the optimism, the teamwork, the experimentation, the exploration, the curiosity. No band has inspired more artwork, no band has inspired more books. No band has ever inspired a more loyal following and I’m involved in all of that stuff.
BILL WALTON

Artwork Banf Exploration Inspire Joy More Teamwork
When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
BILL WALTON

Cheer Grateful Yelling
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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Funny Player
The NCAA is working night and day trying to get Jerry, but no one from the NCAA ever questioned me during my four years at UCLA!
BILL WALTON

Basketball Ncaa Trying Ucla Working
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
When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
BILL WALTON

Age Romantic Thinking
I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
BILL WALTON

Dream Move Moving Sleep
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.
BILL WALTON

Changing Life Pain Running
I’m mainstream. Always have been.
BILL WALTON

Always Basketball Mainstream
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

Football Future Games Player
Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
BILL WALTON

Bird Skills Strenght
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
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 started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.

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