I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
BILL WALTONLife is easy when you’re hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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I like a lot of other music and listen to a lot of other music, but one of the greatest things about the Grateful Dead is they played all the time.
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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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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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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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I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
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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 had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
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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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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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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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Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It’s up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.
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No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.
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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 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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