Top 84 Bill Walton Quotes

#1. I was talking to Coach Wooden after I had signed at UCLA and over the summer, and we used to talk all the time. The thing is, talking to Bill Walton, once you throw in your two cents, he throws in the other 98 cents. He will not stop talking, I'll tell you what.

Kevin Love

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#2. Bill Walton is incredible. If you drop a toothpick on his foot, he'll have a stress fracture.

Stan Albeck

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#3. I feel like Bill Walton - old and shitty.

Shaquille O'Neal

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#4. 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

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#5. 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.

Bill Walton

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

Bill Walton

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#7. 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

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#8. 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.

Bill Walton

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#9. 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.

Bill Walton

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#10. Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

Bill Walton

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#11. Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.

Bill Walton

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#12. 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.

Bill Walton

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#13. 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

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#14. You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.

Bill Walton

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#15. 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.

Bill Walton

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#16. 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.

Bill Walton

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#17. I'm mainstream. Always have been.

Bill Walton

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

Bill Walton

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

Bill Walton

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

Bill Walton

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#21. 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

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

Bill Walton

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#23. I believe in science and evolution. I've been to the Grand Canyon.

Bill Walton

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#24. 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

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#25. 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.

Bill Walton

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#26. 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.

Bill Walton

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#27. 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.

Bill Walton

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#28. 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.

Bill Walton

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#29. Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.

Bill Walton

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#30. When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics

Bill Walton

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

Bill Walton

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

Bill Walton

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#33. People who suffer learn to laugh about their sadness in public.

Bill Walton

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#34. When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.

Bill Walton

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#35. The offensive presence of Greg Ostertag is quite overwhelming sometimes!

Bill Walton

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#36. John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!

Bill Walton

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#37. 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.

Bill Walton

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#38. Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

Bill Walton

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

Bill Walton

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#40. What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.

Bill Walton

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#41. 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.

Bill Walton

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#42. 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

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#43. When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks.

Bill Walton

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#44. No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.

Bill Walton

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#45. Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle.

Bill Walton

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#46. 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

Bill Walton

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#47. I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

Bill Walton

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

Bill Walton

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#49. 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.

Bill Walton

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#50. I'm a lifelong stutterer.

Bill Walton

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#51. 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.

Bill Walton

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#52. I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture of yes is built on a foundation of no.

Bill Walton

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#53. Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball.

Bill Walton

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#54. I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.

Bill Walton

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#55. 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

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#56. I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.

Bill Walton

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#57. 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.

Bill Walton

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#58. 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

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

Bill Walton

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

Bill Walton

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#61. 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

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#62. Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.

Bill Walton

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#63. 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.

Bill Walton

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#64. If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going ... where it's go ing to end up and which way it's going to take you, then I think my work fits the bill.

Rob Walton

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

Bill Walton

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#66. You look at Vladimir Radmanovic, this guy is cut from stone. As if Michelangelo was reading and a lightening bolt flashed before him.

Bill Walton

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

Bill Walton

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#68. I could smell colors, I could feel sounds.

Bill Walton

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#69. 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

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#70. A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

Bill Walton

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#71. 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

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#72. 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.

Bill Walton

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#73. 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

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#74. Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.

Bill Walton

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#75. Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.

Bill Walton

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#76. Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.'

Bill Dedman

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#77. 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.

Bill Walton

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#78. 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.

Bill Walton

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#79. Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.

Bill Walton

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#80. 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

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#81. A huge Chinese population here in ... Houston.

Bill Walton

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#82. 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.

Bill Walton

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#83. 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.

Bill Walton

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#84. I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.

Bill Walton

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