I love to play music. I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
BILL WALTONI learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
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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 had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
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I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can sight read, can play by ear.
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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?
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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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During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
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I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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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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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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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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Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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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.
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