My high school had been a renovated old hospital, so when I first came to the UCLA campus in the spring of 1965, I was immediately impressed by the classic northern Italian architecture that was mixed with futuristic ultra-modern buildings. The classic architecture gave it the heft of old wisdom while the modernistic look inspired hope for the future.

I'm not going to disappear.

Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.

We don't have selfish guys here, which sometimes leads to problems.

I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

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

I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.