I always stayed on before and after practice. I just think that if you want to excel at anything, be it basketball, dance or the piano, you need to p…

- Dolph Schayes

The great thing about basketball is it's a live ball. If someone's in your way, push them out of the way, go around them or over them, whatever it ta…

- Dolph Schayes

The real secret to my success was I could shoot with either hand. Ironically, I became ambidextrous as a direct result of breaking my right hand.

- Dolph Schayes

I was a center in college but I was a high post guy, feeding cutters and rebounding. Going to pro ball, I clearly wasn't big and strong enough to pla…

- Dolph Schayes

I never had a postup game, which really hurt me eventually. Later in my career, teams would put smaller guys on me to stop my shooting and driving an…

- Dolph Schayes

Most people forget that Danny Biasone was the Wilbur Wright of basketball. Because he invented the 24-second clock, the game took off. Yet he was a m…

- Dolph Schayes

It's fair to say that Jews dominated basketball and that started in the 30s in all the big cities. I think it was simply because Jews lived in ghetto…

- Dolph Schayes

I've heard the joke a million times that "Jews in Sports" must be the thinnest book in the world. Actually, I've seen a lot of great players working …

- Dolph Schayes

To get paid to play a game I love was enough for me, no matter what the rules were.

- Dolph Schayes