I always believed that I’d return to Cleveland and finish my career there.

I have short goals - to get better every day, to help my teammates every day - but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It's all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

When I got back from the war in 1946 people didn't want the Mr. Smith kind of movie any more, and I refused to make war pictures.

We don't want to get frustrated because it sticks in your mind too much. We have to work at it and see what we did wrong.

I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.

I can't play the game of basketball and live my life on what other people expect me to do or what they think I should do. That doesn't make me happy. What makes me happy is being able to make plays for my teammates, to be able to represent the name on the back of my jersey.