If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art.

If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.

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

If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it's not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court.

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

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.

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.