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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
Lifelong

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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 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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Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.
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I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.
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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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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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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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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.
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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 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.
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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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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.
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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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The offensive presence of Greg Ostertag is quite overwhelming sometimes!
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Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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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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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
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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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