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
When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks.
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.
Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball.
Tim Duncan's foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year's playoffs. That's not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball.
When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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.
Everybody knew we were capable of playing better. I'm so proud of our kids. I can't say enough about their resolve.
I don't know where they get all these trumped up charges. If they were putting everybody in jail that owed taxes, the jails would be really full.
I couldn't pass it up, ... You get excited. ... It's a very prestigious program.
Obviously you always want to win. You feel better when you get a win. I was especially happy with our service reception. I thought we received serves well.
I grew up in San Diego in a non-athletic environment. My parents were not interested in sports. Their loves were art, literature and music. I gravitated towards sports because of my older brother Bruce and the first coach I ever had, who, like John Wooden, made it fun and really emphasized the joy of playing the team game.
If we play well this weekend and achieve some of the things that I'd like us to be able to achieve in terms of passing, blocking and those sorts of things, then we'll be on our way to being able to handle our Conference USA opponents.
If we knew what to look for, we could literally read the crab's shell to determine when it should molt and when we should get it to market,
(Ole Miss) had a great week. Their team hit over .300, and they've done some good things. They're coming in here undefeated (1-0), so we're going have to be ready to play Friday night.