I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do the operation on someone else, not you. – Bill Walton
I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans. – Bill Walton
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art. – Bill Walton
I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player. – Bill Walton
Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits. – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882