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

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

I don't get a big charge out of being the leading scorer. The object of competing is winning. I just try to do what has to be done for us to win. That might be anything at the time - defense, rebounding, passing. I get great satisfaction out of being a team player.

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.