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

I won the city scoring championship as a senior..

It also didn't take me long to decide that Tri-Cities wasn't for me, and that I wasn't going to go there to play basketball..

I had endured six years of frustration so I think winning it all meant more to me than most of the others on the team..

I once heard that Paul Seymour said as much as winning an NBA Championship, he'd like to see the Celtics lose a game after Auerbach brought out the c….

Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team..

Do your best when no one is looking..

My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat..

Bob Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6'-6 and built like a bulldog..

I was literally fabricated over in France and born about six months after the boat landed at Ellis Island. This was the heart of the Depression. For ….

We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens..

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

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

In whatever sport of field of endeavor you are interested, you should do whatever is necessary to compliment your God-given talent with proper mental….

These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren't any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I pla….

I dribbled by the hour with my left hand when I was young. I didn't have full control, but I got so I could move the ball back and forth from one han….

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

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

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

But in fairness also to the idea of continuing success, you also have to exploit opportunities..

Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfill….