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

[Albert] Hoxie, my Western Civilization professor. I had him in my freshman year and he opened up an extraordinary world to me that I've never forgotten. He used his extensive knowledge of art history to illustrate the development of Western culture and politics.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism.

The only reason is that I hadn't seen The Modern Jazz Quartet perform live and a live performance is often where the real experience of jazz takes place. I'm not familiar with the Boswell Sisters.

Few players have cast a spell across the game like Yao Ming, before or since.

Some stuff can be fixed, some stuff can’t be. Deciding which is which is part of maturing.