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.

Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.

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

I won the city scoring championship as a senior.

The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

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.

My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.