I was latching on to something that was part of my heritage, because many of the slaves who were brought here were Moslems.

Practices were tough.

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

Actor Mike Warren [was my former teammate], who was in Hill Street Blues. There are more, but it's starting to sound like a team reunion at Red Lobster. They were a great bunch of guys and we accomplished a lot together. That's something you don't forget.

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

Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me in the end.

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.