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 WALTONMusic is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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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When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [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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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.
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I’m a lifelong stutterer.
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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 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.
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Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana. So many of them are still around and still going strong. I go out to see them all the time.
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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.
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Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I’ve had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.
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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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Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
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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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I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
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