Quote

I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.

Bill Walton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bill Walton
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 5
Basketball Player
La Mesa
California
William Theodore Walton
William Theodore Walton III
Started
High
School
Going
Love
Grateful
Summer
Dead

More quotes by Bill Walton

Image
I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.
Bill Walton
Image
Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.
Bill Walton
Image
Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle.
Bill Walton
Image
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.
Bill Walton
Image
Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
Bill Walton
Image
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.
Bill Walton
Image
A huge Chinese population here in... Houston.
Bill Walton
Image
Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.
Bill Walton
Image
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.
Bill Walton
Image
Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
Bill Walton
Image
Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?
Bill Walton
Image
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.
Bill Walton
Image
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.
Bill Walton
Image
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
Bill Walton
Image
Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
Bill Walton
Image
Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success?
Bill Walton
Image
No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.
Bill Walton
Image
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.
Bill Walton
Image
Tracy McGrady is doing things we've never seen from anybody - from any planet!
Bill Walton
Image
[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
Bill Walton