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.

There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.

In whatever sport of field of endeavor you are interested, you should do whatever is necessary to compliment your God-given talent with proper mental preparation so as to do "the best you can." The criterion should be to fully exploit your potential rather than to win at any cost. What more could anyone ever ask of you than to be the best you possibly can?

My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat.

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

I won the city scoring championship as a senior.

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