There's a ball. There's a hoop. You put the ball through the hoop. That's success.

I wanted to play baseball!

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

UCLA acknowledged this shift by bringing in Alex Haley (the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X) and Eldridge Cleaver (Soul on Ice) as speakers.

Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption that I wouldn't be up to the work.

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

Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got paid throughout American history, through a strong union.