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

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.

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

no one needs love from youmore than you need love from you.love yourself first, and you will always be in love.

Sharpen your mind with the beauty of knowledge and the tears of experience to be wise.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

Be wary of the man who does not offer water, charges too much for water, asks for too much water, and the one who makes water his business.

Perfection is a paradigm meant to keep us striving and learning and growing. Like a wondrous sunset, perfection may be beyond our reach, but it is within our view and well worth seeking after.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

I'm making people that happy. How cool is that? That's my job.

In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.

I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.

Nobody wants to have things blurted at them.