My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat.

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.

We shall become, or we shall overcome.

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.

What one skill, if you developed it, could have the greatest positive impact on your career? This is the key to your future.

It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.

It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world.

I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.

I think that we should not delay for the sake of delay, but delay until questions are answered.

Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.

Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.

The best thing about being on tour is meeting the fans.