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.

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.

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.

Where there are people, there is injustice, and that is not God’s design. It may not be our fault, but it is our fight. Let us do our part by holding up our corners.

Smile as if you are an angel from heaven.

Success is all about patience.

I didn't want food that looked unapproachable or ridiculously beautiful.

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.

It is frustrating when in an interview people say: 'Give us your make-up tips' and 'How do you stay skinny?' I think: 'Do you ask a guy that?

Laws are maintained in credit, not because they are essentially just, but because they are laws. It is the mystical foundation of their authority; they have none other.

When allowed to return to the class, your feelings of humility and lonesomeness will render you a much finer student and person.

As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.