"Don't worry about what people say behind your back, they are the people who are finding faults in your life instead fixing the faults in their own life."

“Bob Dylan seems to me a totally pernicious influence - the nasal whine of death and masochism. Certainly, this would be a more cheerful world if there were no Dylan records in it. But Dylan and his audience mirror each other, and deserve each other; as Marx said, a morbid society creates its own morbid grave-diggers.”

“The secret to success is written on the doors of this auditorium. One side says 'Push,' the other side says 'Pull.”

“I was used to hanging out late after playing a gig - you mix adrenaline with alcohol and you can stay up all night.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”

“I'll tell you that the dog whistle politics is badly missing the mark. Because, you know, as I've been speaking about it, sure, I've got some racists who come and complain about it. That happens. Right? But I have been absolutely overwhelmed - absolutely overwhelmed - by the number of everyday people who have contacted me with one simple question: what can I do to help?”

“I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in there, how else were you going to get out?”

“If you spend 10,000 hours on the bunny slope, you're never going to win the World Cup. You've got to challenge yourself, ski the double blacks, go out when it's blowin' and snowin' as well as when it's sunny and smooth.”

“My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.”

Source : "Bill Walton Is Talkin' With TJ". Interview with Tom James, www.nba.com.