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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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Bill Walton
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 5
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La Mesa
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William Theodore Walton
William Theodore Walton III
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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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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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Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle.
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I'm a lifelong stutterer.
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Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.
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I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.
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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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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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Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.
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I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
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