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.
BILL WALTONWhen you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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I love to play music. I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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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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I had this fantastic collection of Grateful Dead T-shirts and live concert music the band had give me over all these years, decades of material, and when our boys became teenagers they started going through everything and wearing the shirts and listening to the music and that’s what the Grateful Dead is all about.
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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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My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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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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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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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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That’s what I tried to share in this book, Back From The Dead, the ability to learn, to dream, to hope. In a world that is far too often selling fear and death, I’m selling hope and life and success and that’s why I chose to be part of the Grateful Dead.
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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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Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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