Top 106 Quotes & Sayings by Bill Walton
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Last updated on September 16, 2024.
I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
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.
I'm a lifelong stutterer.
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.
Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball.
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. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.
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 Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.
You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.
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.
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.
The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.
Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.
I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
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.
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.
But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.
At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces.
Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.
Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.
My bike is my gym, my wheelchair and my church all in one. I'd like to ride my bike all day long but I've got this thing called a job that keeps getting in the way.
Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.
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.
Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun.
What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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.
I live by the motto of "chase your dream, make your dream your job, make your job your life."
Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.
I could smell colors, I could feel sounds.
It changes over the course of life, depending on how you're feeling. There's this incredible catalog of different songs, so it depends on what you're hoping for, what your dream is and that song will come on.
When you find yourself talking about less and less and forgetting the love that you bring, never forget there are things you can replace but others you can not.
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.
I'm a different person today than I was yesterday. I live for the moment and everything that happens in my life changes me.
The medical device tags that are being used [in the USA] are a terrible mistake. Why are we taxing people for trying to save lives and trying to make lives better, make peoples lives healthier? Those taxes should be placed on alcohol, tobacco, junk food, guns. Those are all the things that destroy health.
You look at Vladimir Radmanovic, this guy is cut from stone. As if Michelangelo was reading and a lightening bolt flashed before him.
When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.
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.
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. Those three things lead to the fourth pillar which is the hope and dream that tomorrow is going to be better. Without that you have not much at all.
My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle.
No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.
Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success?
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.
Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the love of power we have no chance of ever being successful.
When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks.
I believe in science and evolution. I've been to the Grand Canyon.
My relationship, my friendships with Grateful Dead, has shaped me. Our house is a shrine to all our musical heroes.
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.
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.
In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.
Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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. 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!
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. The joy, the optimism, the teamwork, the experimentation, the exploration, the curiosity. No band has inspired more artwork, no band has inspired more books. No band has ever inspired a more loyal following and I'm involved in all of that stuff.
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