They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.

Wilt Chamberlain had a great deal to do with the success of the NBA. His dominance, power, demeanor and the rivalry with Bill Russell says it all. He will be sorely missed by myself and everyone in the basketball community. Wilt was a great performer and a great athlete.

I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear. Anybody who has a good shot has got to take it and keep taking it. So he misses...so what?

If you want to be a Champion, you've got to feel like one, you've got to act like one, you've got to look like one.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

I have two college degrees, four honorary doctorate degrees, and am in three Halls of fame, and the only thing I know how to do is teach tall people how to put a ball in the hole.

Look after your people.