Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.
Bill WaltonNever rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.
Bill WaltonThe medical device tags that are being used [in the USA] are a terrible mistake. Why are we taxing people for trying to save lives and trying to make lives better, make peoples lives healthier? Those taxes should be placed on alcohol, tobacco, junk food, guns. Those are all the things that destroy health.
Bill WaltonIn basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.
Bill Walton[Peter] Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I quickly gravitated to rock and roll music in the mid-'60s with the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana. So many of them are still around and still going strong. I go out to see them all the time.
Bill Walton