We lived in Yorkville, which is located on the East End of Manhattan. It's further east than Hell's Kitchen, and back then it was the kind of place where the roaches and cockroaches were big enough to carry away small children.

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to

The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.

We ran an up-tempo, transition-style of game at Boston College - very similar to what we ran when I played for Arnold.

The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics.

These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren't any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I played.