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

I won the city scoring championship as a senior.

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

Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we'd be interested in playing in it.

Do your best when no one is looking.

You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life.

People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.