The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.

People say it was the greatest individual rivalry they've ever seen. I agree with that. Let me assure you that if either Wilt's or Russ' coach had ever told one of them he couldn't guard the other guy, he would have lost that player forever.

The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that's done beforehand.

We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.

You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or something. If you sometimes wonder if you've got it, you ain't got it. No pussycats, please.

The last five or six days, I've been running. The last two days, I've been running pretty hard. Everybody's got to be someplace.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.