There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.

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.

Where does your soul walk? Does it walk in the sunlit woods or hide in the shadowy forest?

Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage.

You cannot by any chance fail if you persevere.

False Hustle = cheap fouls, lunging, reaching, etc.

The only mistake guys can make is to try too hard with their appearance. There's something very unmanly about it.

It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.

The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish.

My old man never liked me. He gave me my allowance in traveler's checks.

Women always find you out when you lie. Always. No matter what, they always find out. They're like detectives.

Kick is seeing things from a special angle. Kick is momentary freedom from the claims of the aging, cautious, nagging, fightened flesh.