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Bill Walton Biography

William Theodore Walton III (born November 5, 1952) is an American retired basketball player and television sportscaster. Walton became known playing for John Wooden's powerhouse UCLA Bruins in the early 1970s, 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.

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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!

Athlete, Branded, Hate, Hurt, See

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

Age, Diaw, Romantics, Think, Thinking

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.

Basketball, Greatest, Player, Team, World

Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.

League, Player, Steve, Unathletic

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.

Basketball, Crazy, Fun, House, Stuff

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

Basketball, Change, Life, People, Perfect, Years

Right now, you know, it's not about the refs or anything else, it's about hitting first, getting on the run and never looking back.

Back, Basketball, Hitting, Looking, Refs, Running

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, History, Nba, Played, Roster, Years

I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.

Dream, Moving, Ride, Sleep

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.

Culture, Inspiration, Reflection, Soul, Souls

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

Choices, Health, Lifestyle, Luck, Three

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.

Love, Love Is, Powerful, Single, Successful, Word

I could smell colors, I could feel sounds.

Color, Smell, Sound, Sounds, Colors

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

Basketball, Funny, Planets, Seen, Things, Tracy

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.

Basketball, Dials, Motivational, Sleep, Slot, Yeah

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

Believe, Evolution, Canyons, Grand, Canyon

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

Bolt, Cutting, Flashed, Guy, Reading

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.

Fate, Guarantees In Life, Life, Simple, Twists

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.

Basketball, Dead, Grateful, Player, Same

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

Effect, Effects, Mean, People, Saying, Understand

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