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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.

Bill Walton

I 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.
BILL WALTON

Anything Athlete Hate Hurt
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
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
I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can sight read, can play by ear.
BILL WALTON

Dad Play Sight
Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else’s success?
BILL WALTON

Happiness Highest Levels
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
I love to play music. I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
BILL WALTON

Learning Play Terrible
Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
BILL WALTON

Else Inseparable Life Music
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

Happen People Responsibility Television
I love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow up and become who they are is so incredibly special.
BILL WALTON

Grateful Grow Up People
I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
BILL WALTON

Inspire Music Power Values
Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
BILL WALTON

League Player Unathletic
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.
BILL WALTON

Beautiful Creativity Game Happen
I’m a lifelong stutterer.
BILL WALTON

Life Lifelong Slutterer
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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Crazy Fun
My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
BILL WALTON

Church Gym Wheelchair

[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.

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