Travis Walton Quotations

We've got to do better than that, we've got to be able to pick up the slack when we come on the floor. Or if they're rolling, we've got to keep them rolling.

A little bit, you know, I'm not used to playing as many games. I've just got to see how I can get through it so it doesn't hit me as much, because we can't afford for anyone to fall off.

It's a challenge, and I'm always up for a challenge. I want to go up there and guard him and learn some things from him. He's a good player, and you can usually take things from good players.

It's going to be pretty good. But I ain't worried about that. I'm worried about getting a win.

It's getting a little better. When we went against Ohio State, we only had one, two days of prep. Now, I'm running it a little more in practice so I can get used to it, be more comfortable.

I'd rather be in school because I don't want to make it up.

It was many years ago that I got out of a crewtruck in the national forest and ran toward a large glowing object hovering in the darkening Arizona sky. But when I made that fateful choice to leavethe truck, I was leaving behind more than just my six fellow workmen. I was leaving behind forever all semblance of a normal life, running headlong toward an experience so overwhelmingly mind-rending in its effects, so devastating in itsaftermath, that my life would never—could never — be the same again.

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

I've come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people's perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh of what they want, and do not want, to be true.