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

What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.

You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough

Don't knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!

I don't have very many regrets, not because I lived a perfect life but because life is a bunch of rolling hills, not mountains, or speed bumps instead of stop signs, and so you come to a situation and it's neither good or bad, it just is, and what it means to you is what's your take on it. But the second part of the equation is what are you going to do about it. A lot of times I'm completely wrong, but all you do is back up and start over.

Friendship is a full-time job.

The only important statistic is the final score.