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

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Bill Walton
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 5
Basketball Player
La Mesa
California
William Theodore Walton
William Theodore Walton III
People
Basketball
Growth
Perfect
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Life

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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.
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Kenyon Martin is the 2nd best player in the Eastern Conference.
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A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
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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.
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I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.
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Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.
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If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who's going to stop him?
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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.
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The offensive presence of Greg Ostertag is quite overwhelming sometimes!
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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.
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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.
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When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
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I live by the motto of chase your dream, make your dream your job, make your job your life.
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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.
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A huge Chinese population here in... Houston.
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Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success?
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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.
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Music is my life. It's inseparable from anything else that I do.
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I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
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You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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