My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.

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.

When you serve the humanity and contribute to the society without expectation, you are happy.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

My lifeless body - a boat with sunken anchors, without leader on board, without harbor, without country, only my moist sails afloat in that tremendous ocean of my tears, , , ,

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.

If I give Susan a new Cuisinart then she'll be happy ... If she's thankful to me, my life will be better ... she will do something for me.

Acting is about being real, being honest.

Be content and happy with whatever comes to you.

You can't be afraid until you have no other option but to be afraid.

The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.