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

Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.

Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide.

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

That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.

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.

We played every night. Sometimes we'd stay overnight after a game, but we'd usually drive on to our next destination.