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.

The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

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.

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.

Good example of Love is forgiveness and to Love is to pray for ones soul not to perish

Writing is like riding a bike. Once you gain momentum, the hills are easier. Editing, however, requires a motor and some horsepower.

Writing is a solitary occupation, except for Presidential speeches and sitcoms.

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

Sometimes, Chelsea, I wonder, how you get by from day to day. It's a good thing you're so voluptuous.

I didn't read comics as a kid - though, obviously, I've read a lot since.

I'm no good at really anything that involves motor skills.

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