Bill Walton Quotes

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

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces. ~ Bill Walton

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. ~ Bill Walton

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

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

Winning is about having the whole team on the same page. ~ Bill Walton

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

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. ~ Bill Walton

Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer. ~ Bill Walton

I'm a lifelong stutterer. ~ Bill Walton

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. ~ Bill Walton

I was talking to Coach Wooden after I had signed at UCLA and over the summer, and we used to talk all the time. The thing is, talking to Bill Walton, once you throw in your two cents, he throws in the other 98 cents. He will not stop talking, I'll tell you what. ~ Kevin Love

My bike is my gym, my wheelchair and my church all in one. I'd like to ride my bike all day long but I've got this thing called a job that keeps getting in the way. ~ Bill Walton

Why is Scottie Pippen taking a charge? Taking a charge is for people with no game! ~ Bill Walton

Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow. ~ Bill Walton

The offensive presence of Greg Ostertag is quite overwhelming sometimes! ~ Bill Walton

Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against. ~ Bill Walton

I feel like Bill Walton - old and shitty. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

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

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! ~ Bill Walton

I could smell colors, I could feel sounds. ~ Bill Walton

Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can't do anything. ~ Bill Walton

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. ~ Bill Walton

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

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

I couldn't imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about. ~ Bill Walton

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

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

If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who's going to stop him? ~ Bill Walton

If you're living for today, if you're only dreaming about yesterday, it doesn't work. You got to know that tomorrow is going to be better. Then you're on your way. ~ Bill Walton

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

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

Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball. ~ Bill Walton

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. ~ Bill Walton

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

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. ~ Bill Walton

Kenyon Martin is the 2nd best player in the Eastern Conference. ~ Bill Walton

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. ~ Bill Walton

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

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins. ~ Bill Walton

Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league. ~ Bill Walton

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. ~ Bill Walton

I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture of yes is built on a foundation of no. ~ Bill Walton

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. ~ Bill Walton

The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set. ~ Bill Walton

I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures. ~ Bill Walton

What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being. ~ Bill Walton

I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream. ~ Bill Walton

You look at Vladimir Radmanovic, this guy is cut from stone. As if Michelangelo was reading and a lightening bolt flashed before him. ~ Bill Walton

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. ~ Bill Walton

Yao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside and out. The vision, the creativity, the gentleness of spirit ... he has it all. ~ Bill Walton

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. ~ Bill Walton

I'm mainstream. Always have been. ~ Bill Walton

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. ~ Bill Walton

The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38. ~ Bill Walton

Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game. ~ Bill Walton

Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old. ~ Bill Walton

You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average. ~ Bill Walton

When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks. ~ Bill Walton

Carbon is probably a bit harder to wrap since it's procedural. ~ Bill Hayden

I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty. ~ Bill Ayers

I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it. ~ Bill Plympton

A person with no children says, "Well I just love children," and you say "Why?" and they say, "Because a child is so truthful, that's what I love about 'em - they tell the truth." That's a lie, I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain. ~ Bill Cosby

The evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ is more powerful than anything else we believe. By His resurrection Jesus proved He is who He says He is. Be confident in this truth. Stand on the Holy Word of God. Don't sell the world a false bill of goods. Preach the word. Defend the faith. Live the faith. ~ Charles Colson

There are times when I can almost feel myself simply being. ~ Bill McKibben

Although some Clinton biographers have been quick to label Alinsky a communist, he maintained that he never joined the Communist Party. ~ Bill Dedman

As he rose to leave, Jack was crushed by the realization that while his father considered himself to be a great man, in his father's eyes the best Jack could ever hope to be was useful. ~ Leslye Walton

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer. ~ Bill Gates

I think every guy that hits his 40s has a little bit of a wake-up call and wants to just keep things real, as they say, and just to push yourself. ~ Bill Rancic

Our American story, for generations, is of a people who seek to move forward. A people who look at a mountain and worry not about the tough climb ahead, but dream about the view from the summit. ~ Bill Owens

The federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act passed unanimously in the House, won 97 votes in the Senate, and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton. Twenty states have passed their own versions of this law, and 11 additional ones have religious-liberty protections that state courts have interpreted to provide a similar level of protection. ~ Edwin Meese

an unlovely gaggle of contrary old codgers". ~ Bill Rowe

Pete Davidson - he's in the movie 'Trainwreck.' He has a small part in it. I told Lorne Michaels about him, said he was really funny. ~ Bill Hader

Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy. ~ Barry Corbin

English bond is a style in which one row is made up entirely of stretchers (the long side of bricks) and the next is made only of headers (the end side). ~ Bill Bryson

I believe that Plato was correct in saying that our souls long for the Good, and that nobody chooses evil for themselves while recognizing that it is evil, though some may do it in ignorance. ~ Jo Walton

I've killed myself so many times, I don't even exist anymore. ~ Bill Murray

Never has the promise of glowing skin been more dangerously apt than in the early years of the twentieth century when radium was commonly used as a featured ingredient in beauty products. (credit 7.11) Thanks ~ Bill Bryson

If I believe that I am right, I will take it to the end of the earth until I am proven right. ~ Bill Ackman

It is a very long and very difficult road from a fact to a conclusion. But it is a million times longer from a theory to a fact. ~ Bill James

We met at a local restaurant.
She tweeted from her Smartphone ,"Socializing is so liberating compared to being hung on Social media all the time".
I liked her tweet and asked for the Bill. ~ Ketan Waghmare

Bill Clinton, talking about the need to financially empower wives and mothers in regressive countries, once remarked that women have 'the responsibility gene.' No one has that gene more markedly than his wife. ~ Tina Brown

No one knows anything. You're going to make mistakes and you're going to do things that people think are stupid. You can't sit there and go, "I never want to make a mistake." ~ Bill Hader

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year. ~ Bill Gates

I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home. ~ Bill Jay

I've always had this fantasy of being at the top of a Ferris wheel with a gorgeous guy and having him kiss me."
"Really? That's your fantasy?"
"One of them." She narrowed her eyes, but it didn't diminish their light.
"And I fit the bill?" he said, unable to stop himself from moving his stare to her mouth. Christ, he wasn't expecting her to say any of that, but now that she had, he had the urge to fulfill all her fantasies.
"You asked." She shrugged and started to turn away.
He caught her jaw and tilted it up to his. "Do you want me to kiss you?"
Long, dark eyelashes reached the arch of her brows. "We shouldn't"
"That's not what I asked."
She squirmed, her breath caught.
"Yes," she whispered. ~ Robin Bielman

Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time. ~ Bill Murray

Death is something we really understand extremely well. ~ Bill Gates

I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project. ~ Bill Wyman

A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires. ~ Bill McKibben

The sad reality is that all the well-meaning groups and individuals who challenge our permanent war economy and the doctrine of preemptive war, who care about sustainable energy, fight for civil liberties and want corporate malfeasance to end, were once again suckered by the Democratic Party. They were had. It is not a new story. The Democrats have been doing this to us since Bill Clinton. It is the same old merry-go-round, only with Obama branding. ~ Chris Hedges

Our only consolation, as we feel our own strength failing us, is to feel that we may help those who come after us to do more and to do better than ourselves, fixing their eyes as they can on the great horizons of which we only had a glimpse," pronounced Pasteur, with characteristic gallantry. Many ~ Bill Wasik