To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.

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.

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.

We couldn't sustain it. And they got a lot of kids that can shoot. We just couldn't close out well enough.

My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars' worth of work.

A rebounder, or a shot-blocker for that matter, is always at a disadvantage if he tells himself the only way he can succeed is by out jumping the guy next to him. Sometimes he will have to, but most of the time he will not. Most of my rebounds came from positioning, where I was able to get the ball while in heavy traffic.

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