Bill Walton Quotes About Basketball

Quotes about: Basketball

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

  Bill Walton

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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

  Bill Walton

  Inspirational, Basketball, Opportunity

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

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Matter

• You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Sports, Winning

• 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

  Funny, Basketball, Player

• 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

  Motivational, Basketball, Player

• I'm mainstream. Always have been.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Mainstream, Has Beens

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

  Bill Walton

  Change, Basketball, Years

• Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Player, Bills

• 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.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Running, Hitting

• 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

  Basketball, Growing Up, 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.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Fun, Crazy

• 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

  Motivational, Basketball, Sleep

• 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

  Basketball, Fun, Sleep

• I mean, I'm 6-foot-11, I've got red hair, freckles, I'm a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I've got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I'm a Deadhead.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Mean, Hair

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

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Player, Hesitation

• 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

  Basketball, Sports, Stress

• 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.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Player, Better Person

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

  Bill Walton

  Funny, Basketball, Planets

• 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

  Basketball, Mean, Civilization

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

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Civilization, America

• 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.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Grateful, Player

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

  Bill Walton

  Inspirational, Basketball, Thinking

• 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

  Inspirational, Basketball, Men

• 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.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Teamwork, Growing Up

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