I hope I epitomize the American dream. For I came against long odds, from the ghetto to the very top of my profession. I was not immediately good at basketball. It did not come easy. It came as the result of a lot of hard work and self-sacrifice. The rewards, where they worth it? One thousand times over.

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.

If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.

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

I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.

The most important thing to me is the friends that I've made.

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