black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Bill Walton

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
Tim Duncan’s foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year’s playoffs. That’s not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball.
BILL WALTON

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

Basketball Imaginer Life Playing
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
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 WALTON

Eight Kind School Team Ucla
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
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
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.
BILL WALTON

Dad Play Sight
There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You’re talking about men vs. boys.
BILL WALTON

Beating Boys Dream Team
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 had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan’s look good.
BILL WALTON

Hemisphere Looks Sports
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
BILL WALTON

Art Athletic Literature Parent
The NCAA is working night and day trying to get Jerry, but no one from the NCAA ever questioned me during my four years at UCLA!
BILL WALTON

Basketball Ncaa Trying Ucla Working
John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
BILL WALTON

Basketball Civilization Country
$Bill Walton Quote - I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I’ve had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.$

I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I’ve had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Sports Stress
No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Game Matter Something
You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Sports Winning
I love to play music. I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
BILL WALTON

Learning Play Terrible
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
My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
BILL WALTON

Church Gym Wheelchair
We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Inspirational Men Quality
I’ve got my iPod and I’ve got it on shuffle. If I’m not ready for one, I’ll click to the next one. My wife, Lori, and our children, Adam, Nate, Chris, and Luke, will all tell you that when I find one I like it can stay on repeat for weeks on end.
BILL WALTON

Children Ipods Shuffle Wife
Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
BILL WALTON

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

Else Inseparable Life Music
Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
BILL WALTON

Conferences Eastern Player
I’m mainstream. Always have been.
BILL WALTON

Always Basketball Mainstream

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bill Walton Quotes