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
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 thought we were in a position to win (Friday) which is really discouraging. In the first two games, at no time was I really nervous about losing. It just kind of fell apart in the middle (of the match).
It is a big deal, because it is money and it's money we always meant to be able to pay (the state), but the money was never there to pay them.
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.
We don't know anything about Arkansas and Miami because they haven't played yet, and Ole Miss played last weekend,
They have a list of charges and they're just trying to make a big deal out of it. They're just tooting their own horn.
There's a lot of information that (they need to absorb) and then they'll be okay,
As our business was growing, when we took over the shop, our plan to start paying the taxes didn't work. We didn't get up to where we were making enough money to afford the taxes.