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Bill Walton

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  1. “Go ahead. And they always talk about, well, this guy, John Wooden, was so unique and he was so great. I said, John Wooden was like countless, countless, countless people who were everywhere in our country and throughout the world. But John Wooden had the great good fortune of being in a position where he rose to power. And he was not seeking power. He was not seeking anything other than to make the world better through one individual at a time. John Wooden was an English teacher.”

    2016-06-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 59 - Bill Walton · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “They're everywhere, David. They're everywhere, and our job is to find them. Because they're not out promoting themselves. They're not out there pounding their chest saying, hey, look at me, give me something. I come across people on a constant basis who always are amazed about the opportunity that I had to play for John Wooden.”

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  3. “And when he died this past 20, He had never taken a dime, never taken a dime from anybody other than his fireman's salary. You know what?”

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  4. “Turn me on to Because we didn't have sports in our lives when we were really small because our parents just, that was not their thing. And so, but this guy, Rocky, like me, he was a San Diego native who grew up right in the center of the city and went to a public high school. And then when he graduated from high school, he looking around for what to do at his fork in the road, he said, I'm going to become a fireman. And what did firemen do? Firemen, when they see trouble, they head right for it to fix it. They stand up and say, yeah, I'll take care of this. And that was Rocky. And so as a volunteer, he was the fireman down the street from our school. And he had three children of his own. My mom was the librarian down the other streets from the school. And so at three o'clock every day, there was nothing for all the little children to do. So Rocky stepped to the front and said, I'll take care of this. And so he stepped in as a volunteer and he organized an athletic program for our entire school, every grade, every level, every sport, every student.”

    2016-06-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 59 - Bill Walton · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Are Mike Turico and Mike Greenberg? And Mike Turico is just leaving ESPN, going to NBC, but Mike Greenberg has the morning radio show. And their ability to have their brain and their mouth work at the same time. And that's what Chick Hearn had. And when I was a little boy, little Billy, you talked about going out with your dad to Coney Island and listening while you're eating your hot dogs to Marty Glickman. Was me, little Billy, with my transistor radio listening to Chick Hearn, who would describe this incredible world, this incredible place where dreams could come true and you had a chance to get out there and make it all happen. And that's what I wanted to do.”

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  6. “So that's what Marty told me. He said, he said, Billy, you got to slow it down. You got to slow your thought process down. You have to develop the control of your mind, ultimately the control of your mouth by chewing gum and developing the strength. And discipline in the muscles so that when your brain sends a command to your jaw, to your tongue, to your chin, to your lips, that something coherent can come out. And I listen to all these broadcasters. I listen to these speakers. I listen to Joe Biden speak. I listen to Obama speak. I listen to Chick Hearn speak, to Marty Glickman speak. And I'm just amazed. And the guys who were, to me at the top of the list today in the sports world.”

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  7. “Are the epitome of that? You have captured that in your magnificent book believer. And oh my gosh, what a story. The tears that stream down my face when I read, and your ability to turn that phrase, I am. I know that jealousy is a bad thing, but I am extremely jealous.”

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  8. “When I was forced to stop when my spine failed eight and a half years ago, I had just been named one of the top ten pundits in all of media. I had been named one of the top 20 sports business representatives around the entire globe, and I had been named one of the top 50 sportscasters of all time. So if I can do this, if I can come on this show and talk to you, the greatest orator, the greatest writer, the greatest visionary, the greatest deliverer of the message right now, if I can be all on my...”

    2016-06-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 59 - Bill Walton · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “At the beginning, David, I could not get a job. They looked at me and said, are you kidding me? Get out of here, Wald. You're going to start spitting and stuttering all over everybody and everything. You're going to start talking about Jerry Garcia and Bob Dylan and Neil Young. We can't have that. I finally got a job. And I finally got a break. I got a chance. I got my way into the game. And then when I was forced to stop eighteen years after I started chasing that dream and I caught the call all the big games, I was there. I was”

    2016-06-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 59 - Bill Walton · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “After all these years, I've made my living. For the last 26 years, as a public speaker, as a live television commentator in it.”

    2016-06-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 59 - Bill Walton · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “And I learned how to speak, but then Marty died, and now they're scouring the earth trying to find the person to get me to speak.”

    2016-06-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 59 - Bill Walton · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “And now is the number three guy running the NBA in the New York office, Kiki. And we're just all best family friends And Ernie was one of these endless lists of people in my life who I just kept coming across and coming across who were only interested in making the world a better place. And so that was the world that I lived in. And then Marty Glickman comes along when I'm 28 years old. And he looks at me and he says, you're a stutterer. And I said, and I couldn't say a word. He said, come with me. So he took me over in the corner. We stood behind the potted plant. And in five minutes, he just laid it out. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. This is how you learn how to talk. Speech and communication, that's a skill. It's not a gift. Here I was my entire life thinking that everybody's feet hurt all the time and only the lucky people could talk. And then Marty, he taught me how to speak the same way that John Wooden taught me how to pivot, how to rebound, how to change a pace, change a direction. And then it all came together.”

    2016-06-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 59 - Bill Walton · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “Right, which was the antithesis of my life growing up. And I got to know Marty Glickman through Ernie Vanduay, one of the founding fathers of the NBA as a player. And Ernie had left the Nicks and moved to Los Angeles right across the street from UCLA at Married Miss America, Colleen they had four wonderful children. One of”

    2016-06-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 59 - Bill Walton · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “Berlin 36 Olympics, and he denied at Hitler's request when Hitler said to Martry Brundage, he said, look, it's bad enough that you brought all the black guys over here. But you brought all these Jewish guys too, and we just can't have that. And so Brundage wouldn't let Marty Glickman run and participate in the Olympics, which is going to be such a star. And so Marty came back from this incredible level of just. Nonsense and ridiculous ignorance.”

    2016-06-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 59 - Bill Walton · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “In the 100 Correct. Marty's dreams were shattered because of anti Semitism and racism and ignorance. And Avery Brundridge and Adolf Hitler, Avery Brundage made a deal representing the United States of America. Representing the United States Olympic Committee in charge of all the athletes who were trying to get out there and compete on a level in Berlin in 1930.”

    2016-06-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 59 - Bill Walton · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “Please go and read Marty's book, Fastest Kid on the Block. Please go and see video on demand HBO's incredible documentary about Marty Glickman called Glickman.”

    2016-06-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 59 - Bill Walton · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “Not just children, but everybody. And when learning how to speak is my greatest accomplishment. In life without question. And everybody else's worst nightmare. I was taught how to.”

    2016-06-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 59 - Bill Walton · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  18. “Hesitation, and I just could not express myself. I express myself through sports. I express myself through reading. I express myself through just being a part of a bigger world that I only dreamed I could ever be a part of.”

    2016-06-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 59 - Bill Walton · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  19. “Let me start with this. One thing that you will learn from me is what not to do. And in my life, Athletics, academics, pizza cake. No problem chasing the dream, building my life, climbing on the mountain, getting to the top. My problems in life have been orthopedic health. I've had thirty seven orthopedic operations. I was born with structural congenital defects at my feet. I ground them into dust chasing my dream of trying to be a basketball player. When I was fourteen, I tore up my knee for the first time playing against some thugs they were thirty years old. I was torturing them they didn't like it, so they took me down, had to have my first of those 37 orthopedic operations. When I was 21 playing for UCLA, I broke my spine. But here I was cursed with this horrendous speech impediment. I could not say hello. I could not say thank you. I could not say a single word without just the stammer, the stutter.”

    2016-06-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 59 - Bill Walton · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  20. “And on the Field Museum there, right on the north end of Soldier Field, they had the big giant banner. And on this banner here, they have the skeletons. Out there, and they have the history of the world inside, but on this banner it said everything is dead. And while we always have doubts in our life, while there's always hesitation, while there's always indecision, when we just see what's happened this past weekend with the passing of the champ, Muhammad Ali, when we see what Bill Russell has been able to do with his life and all these guys like you, like Barack Obama, like Joe Biden. Like Jerry Brown, like John Carey, all these guys who come with the fight, guys like Paul Krugman, guys like Timothy Ekan, guys like Robert Reich, guys like David Axel Russ.”

    2016-06-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 59 - Bill Walton · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  21. “I grew up in a classical music household my dad loved classical music but I gravitated very quickly to rock and roll with the stones and the beatles and Dylan and the dead and Carlos Santana and Crosby Stills and Nash and all John Fogarty and John Lennon and Jimmy Cliff with the reggae and it's just fantastic and the music just drives me and that's one of the reasons why I love being on the road and getting to Chicago where you've made your hometown in that situation where there's just so much music and that experience that we had a year ago with the grateful dead the Fair the Well Tour coming into Soldier Field and there. On the field museum, they had the because the den, we took over the entire city and it was just.”

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  22. “While the spoken word, while the Some words remain the same it's how you absorb them and that was little Billy because the absorption rate for me the consumption constantly changed as the world was changing around me and my parents they're believers now my dad passed 13 years ago my mom's still 89 she lives in the same house that we all grew up in they moved there when I was born 63 years ago and just an absolute fantastic family and home and opportunity but it was an opportunity that was driven by yes we are believers we can do something about that that was my parents that was my first coach that was all my heroes my teachers whether it was Bill Russell and Muhammad Ali in the world of sports whether it was Martin Luther King Bobby Kennedy Sergeant Shriver in the world of social issues and politics and public policy whether it was the musicians”

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  23. “My older brother, Bruce, who was a year older and preceded me at UCLA, where he was an All-America football player, academic All-America, went on to play for the Dallas Cowboys. My brother and I were the only brother combination in the history of the world to have played in the Super Bowl and have won an NBA championship. And so when Bruce and I presented our Super Bowl and NBA championship brings to our parents, they kind of looked at these big gaudy things and they said, what is this? And they just sort of tossed it aside. I don't think we've ever seen them again. But my parents, they were so full of hope and they were just, when I just finished reading your book for the third time. And it's one of the few books that I've read multiple times. And it's very much like being on tour with the grateful dead or Bob Dylan or Neil Young or John Fogarty or all of my heroes. Because while the printed word...”

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  24. “Things are everywhere And that is our challenge. We are constantly standing at the fork in the road every single moment. And our choices are, what are we going to do? And my parents, the most unathletic people you've ever seen, I never shot a basket with my dad. I saw him run one time at the church picnic. My mom was our towns librarian. My dad was a social worker by day and adult educator by night and a music teacher on the weekend. The greatest parents ever, but no interest in sports.”

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  25. “Books of radio and conversation. Conversation that I could not participate in because I'm a lifelong stutterer. And here I am. Now, on this show with you, the master wordsmith and this ability of all these different people in my life to step forward when times were tough and we were up against things and people would say I'll take care of this. culture then was able to create little Billy Billy with his red hair and his freckles and his big nose and his goofy nerdy looking face and his horrendous speech impediment but I had a chance a chance to do something in my life because of the sacrifices of other people I'm the luckiest guy in the world”

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  26. “You interrupted me already, man. I thought I was your guest, please. So you're the combination of so many of the heroes in my life that have already passed. John Wooden, Chick Hearn, Jerry Garcia, David Halberstam, Maurice Lucas, Larry Bird's still alive, and Larry Bird still rolling. But you bring it all together. You are able to create the message. You're able to deliver the message. You're able to shine the light. You're able to put it down in the English language like no other. And then you have this incredible ability to clear the space underneath the boards. And when you have all those things together, I had those things in my life, David, when I was growing up. I had the fantastic parents. We had a world, a culture, an environment in our home”

    2016-06-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 59 - Bill Walton · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  27. “Getting ready to vote, but I'm doing this interview first so that I can find the inspiration so that I can see the light so that I can step forward, be a proud American, and finally try to make it to the seven foot barrier. I've always been 6'11, or at least since I was 15 years old. And now because we get this opportunity, I am a true believer on the spirit road. And it is such an honor and privilege for me not only to get to go vote today and exercise the greatest right, the greatest power that we have, but to be on this show with my hero David Axelrod, who is the combination of so many of the people in my life.”

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