Bob Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6'-6 and built like a bulldog.

We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.

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.

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.

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

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.

Do your best when no one is looking.