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

I won the city scoring championship as a senior.

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.

We ran an up-tempo, transition-style of game at Boston College - very similar to what we ran when I played for Arnold.

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.

I was literally fabricated over in France and born about six months after the boat landed at Ellis Island. This was the heart of the Depression. For the first 12 years of my life we lived in a terrible ghetto on the East River.

Do your best when no one is looking.