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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Despite the fact that we cannot be absolutely altruistic in our behavior, we can still build our character to be loving and compassionate – to empathize with others.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

We are what we know and what we are good at. Whenever what we know and what we are good at increase, our position increases and our goals are achieved

One place is very like another.

I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.

I think when you work out a lot, you can afford to eat more because your body's metabolism is higher.

Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.

Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful.

India may be overtaking China as the world's most polluted country. Even now, which country is worse depends on the day.

Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.