They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

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.

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.

Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward whatlooks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.

Death is woven in with the violets, ” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely...change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.

For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.