If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I'm sure not fat. And I guarantee you, I'm a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don't want to play tennis with me. The don't want to play me in golf. They don't want to f***g run with me

A quick way for any player to make himself better is to think about what he himself doesn't like to play against

To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation

Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.

Al McGuire talked to me I don't know how many times about dealing with the press: "You've got to be a con man." I tried that for a day or so, but it never really worked for me.