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.

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

I feel strongly that degrees are really valuable to people, and having MOOCs allow for credit down the line will increase the number of students with the confidence and wherewithal to complete degrees.

So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some little seed crystal of interest, a sentence or an image or an idea, and as much as possible divest myself of any deep ideas about it. And then by this process of revision, mysteriously it starts to accrete meanings as you go.

You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are.

I'm very surprised at that, yes, because there were many chances for it to be in Germany once the syndication market started and it continually just did not happen.

Its so beautifully arranged on the plate you know someones fingers have been all over it.

I've got billions of sparrows to worry about as well as everything else'. So there's the whole idea that whatever it is that you believe, it can never be valid unless you have some consensus reality demonstration.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

I think I've been on a path ever since I was born, a path of high stress. I put myself, my career, it was a big old juicy carrot right in front of me for all of my life.

I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.

Handwritten political posters - often composed in an artless and unadorned style, usually just words on plain white paper - were ubiquitous in South Korea in the 1970s and 1980s and were one of the few outlets available for expressing political views. Most posters were anonymous and put up under the cover of night.

But I don't only get recognized for 'Friday the 13th.' I was on a TV show called' I've Got a Secret.' I was on that show for ten or eleven years. The older people always remember me from that.

A piece of jewelry is often a piece of art. But it only becomes valuable when emotions are added to it.

Editorials are, obviously, pieces of opinion journalism. They are not intended to be dispassionate, balanced accountings of a news situation or issue. They present a strong and strongly argued position and do not necessarily present or even take into account the opposing position.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

Don't strangle a struggler

I'm the guy everybody wanted to live next door. They just didn't want me to be prime minister.

Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.

No, if it was up to me every record would be brand new studio material but Atlantic records asked me to put out a full live record because my tour really did do well last year.

Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings.

I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.