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I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.

Bill Walton

Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
BILL WALTON

Else Inseparable Life Music
I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
BILL WALTON

Believe Canyons Evolution
If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
BILL WALTON

Going Johnson Jumpers
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
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?
BILL WALTON

Bills Else Game People
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
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.
BILL WALTON

Boys Collection Fantastic Grateful Teenager
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 WALTON

Ankles Hands Operations Two
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
Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
BILL WALTON

Conferences Eastern Player
I went to my first show [of the Grateful Dead], got right up front and never left. The incredible excitement, the family, the spirit, the hope, the happiness, all the different things I love and live for in life are there.
BILL WALTON

Book Grateful Teamwork
[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,
BILL WALTON

Getting Grateful Ready Song Strong
Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
BILL WALTON

Basketball Funny Planets
I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
BILL WALTON

Dream Move Moving Sleep
I love to play music. I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
BILL WALTON

Learning Play Terrible
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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Motivational Player

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