When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.

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.

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

Balls are to men what purses are to women.

An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.

The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?

The invisible realm is superior and far more real than the visible realm.

I love New York. You're never alone, but you're always on your own.

I dont call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I dont.

Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?

When I leave Somalia I will leave buildings but not people.

If someone wants to know about Scientology, they should just go and read about it themselves. That's the best way to do it.