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I'm a lifelong stutterer.

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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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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.
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If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who's going to stop him?
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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 believe in science and evolution. I've been to the Grand Canyon.
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Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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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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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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Why is Scottie Pippen taking a charge? Taking a charge is for people with no game!
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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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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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My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
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Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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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.
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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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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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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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You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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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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Tracy McGrady is doing things we've never seen from anybody - from any planet!
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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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