French was my first language.

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.

Guy’s don't usually cry, but when they do, nobody can realize that what they have been going through.

Don’t ignore pain

I think we can say our energy system will be the most efficient and environmentally friendly in the world.

I'm a much better writer for being a father.

[But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.

Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.

He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.

I'm looking for richness, complexity, and characters that have different layers and that you don't really get bored of.

I can be a champion and a public servant also.

The people are fed up with corruption and embezzlement. They object to censorship. The first thing that the people of Iran want is free elections.