Bill Walton Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.

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

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

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

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.

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.

My relationship, my friendships with Grateful Dead, has shaped me. Our house is a shrine to all our musical heroes.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

[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.

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.

A huge Chinese population here in... Houston.

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

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

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

I'm mainstream. Always have been.

What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.

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

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

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.