I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
BILL WALTONNo matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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.
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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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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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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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You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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[Peter] Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I quickly gravitated to rock and roll music in the mid-’60s with the Grateful Dead,
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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’m a lifelong stutterer.
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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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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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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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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 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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Right now, you know, it’s not about the refs or anything else, it’s about hitting first, getting on the run and never looking back.
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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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