The toughest thing for me was growing up and being stared at and being looked at and being talked about in that particular way. Other than that it was a good childhood.

You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.

I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight.

Bill Russell helped make my dream a better dream because when you play with the best, you know you have to play your best.

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.

If I were given a change of life, I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer.

This is a team game and one man doesn't win and one man doesn't lose. In the end, the best team usually wins.