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.

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.

Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

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

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.