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
Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success?
Why is Scottie Pippen taking a charge? Taking a charge is for people with no game!
In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.
Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness. The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all
I couldn't imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
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.
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.
What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks.
Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball.
I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
My bike is my gym, my wheelchair and my church all in one. I'd like to ride my bike all day long but I've got this thing called a job that keeps getting in the way.
I'm a lifelong stutterer.