Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.

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.

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.

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

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.

Are there moments when our brains are not exercising?” I questioned. “That would be almost like being brain dead...

It is always better to try and fail than not to try.

Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.

She stood lost in eternity wearing a crazy dress, watching the immense sky.

Nnothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled, before they can exert their virtues.

Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.

There is no ultimate objective reality within the ten thousand states of mind. Most people don't like to hear this. But there are ten thousand realities, and each is definitely unifying.

If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.

I also played two years of high school football but I wasn't very, how shall I say it, talented.

I don't fall into the physical manifestation of a man of letters. So I guess people assume the scripts are delivered to me under the door.