If I were given a change of life I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer.

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.

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

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.

It's best to locate the mind first before launching the 'missiles of contention'.

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

God is looking for men in whose hands His glory is safe.

I like the tradition of the Oscars. I like that some of the greatest comedians ever have hosted the show.

I believe marriage is a spectator sport.

The world does not owe us a living, we owe the world a living, our own.

It's a marriage. If I had to choose between my wife and my putter, well, I'd miss her.

My success will be remembered by others. I don't have to constantly remind myself. However, I must always remember my failure, for if I forget them, I am bound to myself.

Sooner or later, the market will do what it has to do to prove the majority wrong.

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior