I love watching track and field - the 4x100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they're able to do, I love watching that.

You lose in the Finals, they're all disappointing. Doesn't matter if I'm playing in Miami, Cleveland or on Mars. You lose the Finals, it's disappointing.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

As a man, if you got a problem with somebody, you sit down face to face and you talk to them eye to eye. And you hash it out and move on.

We ran out of talent tonight. The guys played as hard as they could, as long as we could.

I hope I can help guys coming out of high school, if they need advice. I know the ins and outs of everything.

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.