If the UCLA teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s were subjected to the kind of scrutiny (other schools) have been, UCLA would probably have to forfeit about eight national championships and be on probation for the next 100 years.
BILL WALTONI mean, I’m 6-foot-11, I’ve got red hair, freckles, I’m a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I’ve got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I’m a Deadhead.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.
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If you’re living for today, if you’re only dreaming about yesterday, it doesn’t work. You got to know that tomorrow is going to be better. Then you’re on your way.
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I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
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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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There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.
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If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
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Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.
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Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
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When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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I’m mainstream. Always have been.
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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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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.
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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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