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.
BILL WALTONMusic is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
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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.
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We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
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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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I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
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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.
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I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
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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.
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I’ve had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don’t work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.
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Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
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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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Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else’s success?
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Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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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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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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I went to my first show [of the Grateful Dead], got right up front and never left. The incredible excitement, the family, the spirit, the hope, the happiness, all the different things I love and live for in life are there.
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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.
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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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I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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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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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!
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I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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Tim Duncan’s foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year’s playoffs. That’s not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball.
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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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Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.
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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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