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
I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.
You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.
I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.
Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
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.
Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle.
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.
Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
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.
When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks.
The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.
Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.