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

Bill Walton

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
During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
BILL WALTON

Concerts Constantly Courses Dead Grateful Player
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
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
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
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
Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It’s up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.
BILL WALTON

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

Else Inseparable Life Music
I love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow up and become who they are is so incredibly special.
BILL WALTON

Grateful Grow Up People
I’m a lifelong stutterer.
BILL WALTON

Life Lifelong Slutterer
Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
BILL WALTON

League Player Unathletic
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.
BILL WALTON

Dream Live Today Yesterday
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.
BILL WALTON

Grateful Listen Music Other
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
Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else’s success?
BILL WALTON

Happiness Highest Levels

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