We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.
Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics.
We ran an up-tempo, transition-style of game at Boston College - very similar to what we ran when I played for Arnold.
My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
I grew up in the heart of the Depression.
Every jock gets up and tells the world how lucky he is. But I feel that I may be the luckiest one of all in terms of timing and being at the right place at the right moment-even though, for the last 30 years, I was told I was born 20 years too soon, for obvious reasons.