Top 106 Quotes & Sayings by Bill Walton - Page 2

Why is Scottie Pippen taking a charge? Taking a charge is for people with no game!

Music is my life. It's inseparable from anything else that I do.

I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.

When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense

The offensive presence of Greg Ostertag is quite overwhelming sometimes!

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.

I'm a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.

I have always wanted to be part of something special, and when I got to Boston.. actually, when I bought, begged and pleaded my way onto the Celtics.. it was already a championship team. I was just glad to be able to sit there and cheer and to be Larry Bird's valet, to be sure that his shoes were fine and his uniform was folded neatly.

[Peter] Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I quickly gravitated to rock and roll music in the mid-'60s with the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana. So many of them are still around and still going strong. I go out to see them all the time.

The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.

Tracy McGrady is doing things we've never seen from anybody - from any planet!

I love to play music. I'm terrible at it, but I love learning about it .

I'm mainstream. Always have been.

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.

Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.

I had this fantastic collection of Grateful Dead T-shirts and live concert music the band had give me over all these years, decades of material, and when our boys became teenagers they started going through everything and wearing the shirts and listening to the music and that's what the Grateful Dead is all about.

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.

When I'm at a show, I'm yelling and cheering. I'm with those guys [the Grateful Dead].

Kevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He's already one of the greatest players to have played the game.

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.

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.

A huge Chinese population here in... Houston.

I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.

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

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.

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?

[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.

Yao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside and out. The vision, the creativity, the gentleness of spirit … he has it all.

We grew up without a television, so we constantly had music playing in our house.

Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.

I 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.

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.

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

Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player. I am a better person because of my failures and disgraces.

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.

Right now, you know, it's not about the refs or anything else, it's about hitting first, getting on the run and never looking back.

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.

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

Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.

Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can't do anything.

Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness. The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all

Greg Ostertag is one of the top centers on this planet!

Kenyon Martin is the 2nd best player in the Eastern Conference.

Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.

If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who's going to stop him?