My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.

I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.

When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

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.

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.