Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I've ever seen.

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.

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.

I ate 'umble pie with an appetite.

Being an editor it's a complicated job, but the last impression I'd want anybody to have is that it's onerous. It's a joy - a complicated joy, but a joy.

If Americans are to read something that is difficult, they will only do so supposing they will be admired for having done it.

Investors that do the best, and have done the best, are those that stay and compound at above-average rates over the long term.

I would definitely love to be a parent.

I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.

So,would you say I’m closer to a zombie or a vampire? I gotta know—are my parts going to rot and fall off, or am I forever frozen in youthful perfection?

If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family.