The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.

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.

Never love that which you cannot keep.

Politicians are a breed of the human race who believe they know everything

The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible.

My commitment is to my kids and my mum and I'm having a whale of a time.

The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which it connects.

My first objective is to win against No. 1 in the world.

People shouldn't read into venue locations someone's heart.

To have a job where you can make things better for people? That's a blessing. Why would I do anything else?

Brazil, always they buy from the United States. The first who was sell to the United States was football.

Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin.