Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.

The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide.

I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.

People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to

These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren't any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I played.

We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.

Do your best when no one is looking.

It also didn't take me long to decide that Tri-Cities wasn't for me, and that I wasn't going to go there to play basketball.

But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.

May you never grow too old to believe in magic and fairy tales.

Love Is Learning Process....To keep Loving One With All Your Heart You Have To Keep Feeling Things You Can Dream More Then One Beyonds.....

Nothing is more hip than a corpse. The style is timeless. Death is trending.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

Violence won't solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.

I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when I was 19 because I found that I felt better.

What you try to do, as an actor, is just make it work somehow.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

We only did probably two, three takes on every scene we did, at the most.

Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.