You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

I don't want to be called a point guard, but I can't stop it.

That's one of my biggest obstacles. I'm afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing.

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 love sharing the ball with my teammates. I see a lot of things before my teammates see them.

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.

That's what keeps me humble because I know my background, know what my mother went through. I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do. My mom always says and my friends all say, ’You're just a very low-maintenance guy’. I don't need too much. Glamour and all that stuff don't excite me. I am just glad I have the game of basketball in my life.