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Life 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.

Bill Walton

Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Grow Up Ucla
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.
BILL WALTON

Business Encompasses Skills Sports Today
If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
BILL WALTON

Going Johnson Jumpers
When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
BILL WALTON

Deliberating Life Pain Years
I’m mainstream. Always have been.
BILL WALTON

Always Basketball Mainstream
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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Inspirational Men Quality
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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Game Go Many Out Players Time Ucla
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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Nba Years
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.
BILL WALTON

Dream Home Starting
Music is critical in our lives and culture. It’s the inspiration that drives us. It’s also the window to our souls. It’s a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we’re going.
BILL WALTON

Inspiration Reflection Soul
It changes over the course of life, depending on how you’re feeling. There’s this incredible catalog of different songs, so it depends on what you’re hoping for, what your dream is and that song will come on.
BILL WALTON

Catalog Dream Feelings Incredible Song
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.
BILL WALTON

Book Dream Grateful
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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Crazy Fun
I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
BILL WALTON

Grateful Love School Summer
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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Greatest Player Team
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.
BILL WALTON

Changing Life Pain Running

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