Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.

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.

In youth, the greatest success is to see the world from the eyes of the aged people and to feel exactly how they feel.

...fame is something other people hand you, while success is what you define for yourself.

What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

Silos can't interoperate unless the technology does.

There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating.

And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.

When you are appreciating creation as much as the Creator, then the Creator will ask, 'Who is appreciating my creation as much as me. Let me see this person.'

I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.

O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.