Bill Walton Sports Quotations

You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.

I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.

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 might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.

Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

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.