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.Collection: Hope
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.Collection: Relationship
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.Collection: Music
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.
You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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.
I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.
I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
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.
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.
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.
Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball.
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.
I'm a lifelong stutterer.
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.
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 Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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.
Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.
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.
A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
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.
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.
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
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.
Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.
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.
Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Dream
I could smell colors, I could feel sounds.Collection: Color
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.Collection: Powerful
When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks.Collection: Thinking
Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.Collection: Selfishness
No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Funny
I believe in science and evolution. I've been to the Grand Canyon.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Talking
When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romanticsCollection: Thinking
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.Collection: Fate
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.Collection: Book
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.Collection: Growing Up
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!Collection: Hurt
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.Collection: Mistake
John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!Collection: Basketball
We grew up without a television, so we constantly had music playing in our house.Collection: House
Tracy McGrady is doing things we've never seen from anybody - from any planet!Collection: Funny
[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.Collection: Want
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.Collection: Grateful