At age 31, in 1981, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.

You can feel the vibes, feel the people pulling for you.

Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed.

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.

Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.

I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one.

The two smallest boys were cut down first, bodies bounding in different directions as they were shot from opposite sides of the field, like pinballs caught in a tight corner.

Giving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana.

The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

I don't care what you do. As long as you know you belong to me.

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.

Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first -- before it boomerangs.

Rowdy Roddy cut his locks; but don't worry woman, he's still a fox.

Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet.