Bill Walton Quotes

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.

Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.

There are four pillars to happiness, which is the ultimate goal in life-to be happy. Health is first, family is second, home is third. That safe place where you can go to and regroup, be in a safe place by yourself start over. Those three things lead to the fourth pillar which is the hope and dream that tomorrow is going to be better. Without that you have not much at all.

I could smell colors, I could feel sounds.

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.

But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.

No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.

I believe in science and evolution. I've been to the Grand Canyon.

When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics

John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!

I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.

Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.

The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.

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.

I hate to say anything that may hurt UCLA, but I can't be quiet when I see what the NCAA is doing to Jerry Tarkanian only because he has a reputation for giving a second chance to many black athletes other coaches have branded as troublemakers. The NCAA is working night and day trying to get Jerry, but no one from the NCAA ever questioned me during my four years at UCLA!

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.

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.

When you find yourself talking about less and less and forgetting the love that you bring, never forget there are things you can replace but others you can not.

The medical device tags that are being used [in the USA] are a terrible mistake. Why are we taxing people for trying to save lives and trying to make lives better, make peoples lives healthier? Those taxes should be placed on alcohol, tobacco, junk food, guns. Those are all the things that destroy health.

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.

My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.

I love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow up and become who they are is so incredibly special.

There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.

That's what I tried to share in this book, Back From The Dead, the ability to learn, to dream, to hope. In a world that is far too often selling fear and death, I'm selling hope and life and success and that's why I chose to be part of the Grateful Dead.

I'm a lifelong stutterer.

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

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.

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?

Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle.

Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player. I am a better person because of my failures and disgraces.

Tracy McGrady is doing things we've never seen from anybody - from any planet!

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.

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.

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.

The offensive presence of Greg Ostertag is quite overwhelming sometimes!

I have always wanted to be part of something special, and when I got to Boston.. actually, when I bought, begged and pleaded my way onto the Celtics.. it was already a championship team. I was just glad to be able to sit there and cheer and to be Larry Bird's valet, to be sure that his shoes were fine and his uniform was folded neatly.

I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.

When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.

When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks.

Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.

No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.

Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun.

When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.