Quotes by Bill Walton

About Bill Walton:

William Theodore "Bill" Walton III is an American retired basketball player and television sportscaster. Walton achieved superstardom playing for John Wooden's powerhouse UCLA Bruins in the early '70s, winning three successive College Player of the Year Awards, while leading the Bruins to two Division I national titles. He then went on to have a prominent career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) where he was a league Most Valuable Player (MVP) and won two NBA championships. His professional career was significantly hampered by multiple foot injuries. Walton was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on May 10, 1993 and the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame that same year. He is the father of former professional basketball player Luke Walton.
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I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

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

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

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

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

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.

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'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.

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

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

Bill Walton

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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...

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

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

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

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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Author Bio

  • NameBill Walton
  • DescriptionNational Basketball Association player, Broadcaster
  • BornNovember 5, 1952
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSportsperson; Basketball Player
  • AwardsNBA Most Valuable Player Award