I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.

Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.

Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I've ever seen.

It is said that good things come to those who wait. I believe that good things come to those who work.

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

This is a team game and one man doesn't win and one man doesn't lose. In the end, the best team usually wins.

Bill Russell helped make my dream a better dream because when you play with the best, you know you have to play your best.

Scoring 100 points is a lot, but I maybe could have scored 140 if they had played straight-up basketball.

I was played the villain so much because I was bigger and stronger than most, and they cast me as the villain everywhere I went.

Intelligence is overrated. Wisdom is under applied.

Don’t try to change the world. To find yourself in a new world, change your thoughts.

Carnal love is the love of table, not of the host.

When our Heart is on the Right Place there will be no Secrets.

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

Why wait for the loss of hearing to appreciate sound? Turn off the white noise of your thoughts and start to listen.

Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream, ochre, or even a smart sage.

We see nothing till we truly understand it.

Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves.

I love teaching. I love working with kids... maybe some day I'll go back to the classroom. I'm not ready to say it'll never happen.