I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.

With 300 million people in America, you can fail to impress 299 million of them and still go platinum.

I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.

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

The Sixties was a perfect storm of disaffection with political leaders trying to pass off the same old platitudes to maintain the status quo and an unexpected courageousness in the masses of youth. Nothing on this scale had ever happened before in U.S. history and it hasn't happened since.

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.