Do your best when no one is looking.

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

It also didn't take me long to decide that Tri-Cities wasn't for me, and that I wasn't going to go there to play basketball.

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

But in fairness also to the idea of continuing success, you also have to exploit opportunities.

French was my first language.

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