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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
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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.
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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.
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Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.
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Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.
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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.
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The offensive presence of Greg Ostertag is quite overwhelming sometimes!
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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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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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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.
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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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I'm a lifelong stutterer.
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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.
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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.
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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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Music is my life. It's inseparable from anything else that I do.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.
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