Quotes from Bill Walton

I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.

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

[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I'm a lifelong stutterer.

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

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.

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do the operation on someone else, not you.

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.