Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I've ever seen.

I couldn't have come close without my teammates' help because the Knicks didn't want me to make 100.

I get constant reminders from fans who equate that game and my career as one and the same.

If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?

It seemed like whatever I touched, I was breaking record after record. I just knew I was on. I completely destroyed all existing shooting records there - an omen of things to come.

And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.

A big dog tends to be much more at ease with kids and gentle with them than a little one that's always yelping.