You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.