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

Bill Walton

I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Imaginer Life Playing
I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
BILL WALTON

Legends Many Lakers Player Shaped
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
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
I’m a different person today than I was yesterday. I live for the moment and everything that happens in my life changes me.
BILL WALTON

Changing Life Live Moment Yesterday
I hate to say anything that may hurt UCLA, but I can’t be quiet when I see what the NCAA is doing to Jerry Tarkanian only because he has a reputation for giving a second chance to many black athletes other coaches have branded as troublemakers.
BILL WALTON

Anything Athlete Hate Hurt
The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I’m an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike.
BILL WALTON

Avid Book Collector Passion
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.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Country Growing Teamwork
I’m a lifelong stutterer.
BILL WALTON

Life Lifelong Slutterer
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
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 believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
BILL WALTON

Believe Canyons Evolution
It’s the most pleasurable experience in the world! When you’re on a great team and you get hot, your teammates milk you dry – they wear you out and there’s nothing like being on a great team.
BILL WALTON

Hot Pleasurable Team World
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
When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
BILL WALTON

Cheer Grateful Yelling
Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
BILL WALTON

Bird Skills Strenght

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