Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to

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.

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.

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

Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.

We live in a stocking which is in the process of being turned inside out, without our ever knowing for sure to what phase of the process our moment of consciousness corresponds.

I take my integrity seriously, but make no mistake, I do not rely on others to do the same.

Others can’t give you inner-peace. Your children, spouse, priest or friends can’t give it to you. You have to create it yourself.

We do have our challenges. Some things don't always work right in Washington, and the anger you see from the electorate, I think, is a reflection of what's not working right.

One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.

Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

Every chance you get you seem to hurt me more and more, but each hurt makes my love stronger than before.

The brilliant explosion known as Benny Goodman went off in 1935, and it hasn´t gone out yet.