When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new generation of players.

Initially when I stopped playing, I had accumulated some burnout.

If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

If I hadn't become a professional basketball player, I would have become a history teacher. There's so much to learn from history.