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.

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

They were willing to do anything to stop me.

He fouled out in the fourth quarter, and that's when I really started getting points. He was no more at fault than anyone.

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

Villains are kind of hard to really know on a personal level when you see them as mean, unsensitive-type people.

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