The toughest thing for me was growing up and being stared at and being looked at and being talked about in that particular way. Other than that it was a good childhood.

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.

You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.

I especially like eavesdropping on women my age. Besides being titillating, it also helps me gauge where I'm at in comparison.

Focusing is about saying No.

It's time to embrace what is...and let go of what you wanted to happen

And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.

the language of truth is too simple for inexperienced ears.

Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: "What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?"

...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.

We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.