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

I was especially impressed with Pauley Pavilion [at UCLA campus ]. The floors hadn't been laid down yet, when they gave me the tour, each new room got my heart thumping. They even had a surgical operating room in case an athlete was severely injured.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

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 think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

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