You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
BILL WALTONThe 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.
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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Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
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I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.
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I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
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I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
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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’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.
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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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I’m a different person today than I was yesterday. I live for the moment and everything that happens in my life changes me.
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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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If the UCLA teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s were subjected to the kind of scrutiny (other schools) have been, UCLA would probably have to forfeit about eight national championships and be on probation for the next 100 years.
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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.
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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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Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
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The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
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Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can’t do anything.
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I’m mainstream. Always have been.
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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
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Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
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When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
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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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Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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