It seemed like whatever I touched, I was breaking record after record. I just knew I was on. I completely destroyed all existing shooting records there - an omen of things to come.

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.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Technology doesn't address everything - for example, air travel still sucks.

If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.

So far, this is the oldest I've been.

I've always been a huge fan of martial arts and comedy, so Rush Hour was the perfect combination for me.

Instead of asking for help, I just dig in and do everything myself.

I want to live in a city where people who make the rules have to live by them.

The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.