A lot of people want to change the world, but only a few people want to change themselves. When it comes to the issue of race in America, we have to do both.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.

Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.

How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of the key.

Give to another human being without the expectation of a return.

I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose because I wasn't ready.