I won the city scoring championship as a senior.

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.

I am, in fact, a medical doctor; I am a world expert in mechanical heart technology; and I am an athletically fit man who takes care of his own health through diet and exercise, including frequent five mile runs.

The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds.

I suggested that we had experience in helping other countries build their military forces, and we would be willing and happy to do the same for Afghanistan, together with the United States.

I don't listen to the radio in the car, and I do that because I don't want to be influenced.

The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of.

It's not the cards that you have all the time that makes you a winner or a loser.

Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own deficits. This will create greater pressure for higher state and local taxes.

Teaching is a truly noble profession. It's sad the amount of responsibility that teachers have today. They're not only teaching kids: they're raising kids, policing kids - and they don't make a lot of money.

Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!

We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.

To use a word I never thought I'd apply to myself, I've sort of become a Luddite with regard to information. Where everyone else is getting their Twitter feeds from 'The New York Times' and their 'Huffington Post' emails, I live in a little bit of a bubble.

Happiness is a choice I am making now. Once we understand that and find love consciousness we learn that this place of internal plenitude needs nothing.

I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life.

Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half an hour later, your biggest concern is what are you going to be eating.

We thought our careers as cosmonauts - we were young then - would end with a flight to Mars. But, you see, life has made some course corrections.

As a boxer, you have to put risk in to get to another level.

I don't believe there is such a thing as a moderate Islamist party. The challenge with Islamists is that they seek to impose what they call Sharia on everybody, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.

To a lot of us, literature's eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing - like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture.

I try to respect the rules of the silent movies and I tried to make signification to make sense, and also the crew were very good and the fact that we shot in LA in the real Hollywood, studios and houses. We shot in the bed of Mary Pickford, and you cannot be any more accurate than that, so that helped a lot.

Australia is a remarkable country with incredible technical and physical resources and a capacity to be a world leader in renewables.

I'm very fortunate to have a coach that I got to stay with all this time. Every year the bond gets stronger and better, and we understand each other more. And it's like she can tell if I walk into the gym what kind of mood I'm in, what she has to fix for the practice I need, or how I'm feeling.

We were the group that built the roads by day that the Vietcong traveled at night.

Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.