OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero.

I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.

The Lakers fans have been great, even folks in the supermarket are welcoming me back.

I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked him, came across the middle and dunked on him.