I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.

We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.

French was my first language.

We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.

But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.

People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.

My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.

I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.

That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.

The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

I won the city scoring championship as a senior.

There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.

You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life.

Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics.

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.

Sports creates a bond between contemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide.

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.

Exceptional people convert life's setbacks into future successes,

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.

Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear... I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, 'My wife told me to wear this!' And I just shake my head.

The quality not the longevity of ones life is what is important.

You know when I fight, I'm going to sell out the show. Everyone wants to see someone get knocked out or tapped out.

Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.

Costume, hair and makeup can tell you instantly, or at least give you a larger perception of who a character is. It's the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth, so it really does establish who they are.

I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.

I do want to have holidays and see my family and friends.

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

I think you must be running away from something pretty enormous if you don't want to see a person more than once or twice. I think relationships don't get interesting for quite a while. When the initial heady rush fades, that's when it gets really exciting.

Intimidation, harassment and violence have no place in a democracy.

When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today.

Across much of the developing world, by the time she is 12, a girl is tending house, cooking, cleaning. She eats what's left after the men and boys have eaten; she is less likely to be vaccinated, to see a doctor, to attend school.

I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted them. From the get-go, I've frequently mouthed off about their negative impact on the game.

I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.

Once the anchor of reason has been cut, one's craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we find it not.

One of the influences of Kafka over later writers is not so much in the content of his work as in its form.