I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

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 always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

Ken Heitz got drafted by the Bucks the same year I did. He went to their camp just for the experience, then dropped out to attend Harvard Law School. I always admired his combination of athleticism and brains.

But all was not sunshine and Marvin Gaye songs. [UCLA] also recruited black students as part of a High Potential Program that was meant to bring diversity to the campus. Two of the students that were part of that program were Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr., both members of the Black Panther Party's Southern California Chapter.