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.

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.

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

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

The beast faith lives on its own dung.

It is impossible to feign mastery of an instrument, however skillful the impostor may be.

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

What you have to give, you offer least of all through what you say; in greater part through what you do; but in greatest part through who you are.

Come, come to Him who made thy heart; Come weary and oppressed; To come to Jesus is thy part; His part, to give thee rest.

Protesting the color of a man's skin is not a worthy protest.

Tears don't mean you're losing, everybody's bruising, Just be true to who you are

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

One of the biggest limitations on consoles is the amount of memory available to the game.

Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy.