Bill Walton
Bill Walton
William Theodore "Bill" Walton IIIis an American retired basketball player and television sportscaster. Walton achieved superstardom 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 Associationwhere he was a league Most Valuable Playerand won two NBA championships. His professional career was significantly hampered by multiple foot...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth5 November 1952
CityLa Mesa, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.
When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
I could smell colors, I could feel sounds.
No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.
Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.
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.
Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.
Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
I know Jim's decision to leave us was a difficult one, but it's hard to turn down such a great opportunity. Jim has been a valuable contributor to our development and we wish him the very best in his new position at Bolder.
How can you say that? That was the worst play in the history of the NFL.
Whenever a member of the team can't participate anymore, there's this void because suddenly it seems like there's somebody missing, like there's less of us. It affects the whole energy of the team, for sure.
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.
Our business plan just went to hell on us and we couldn't recover from it.