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
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If you're living for today, if you're only dreaming about yesterday, it doesn't work. You got to know that tomorrow is going to be better. Then you're on your way.
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It's the most pleasurable experience in the world! When you're on a great team and you get hot, your teammates milk you dry - they wear you out and there's nothing like being on a great team.
I'm a lifelong stutterer.
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I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.
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When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks.
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Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.
Greg Ostertag is one of the top centers on this planet!
Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
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