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I love to play music. I'm terrible at it, but I love learning about it .

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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
Terrible
Learning
Music
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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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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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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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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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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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Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.
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My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
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The offensive presence of Greg Ostertag is quite overwhelming sometimes!
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Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.
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I'm a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.
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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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Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
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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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Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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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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I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
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A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
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No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.
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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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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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