My dad died from pancreatic cancer at 54... I'm making sure I'm eating my vegetables and staying away from the red meat.
From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.
I don't think there's any real motivation for somebody to be a truck driver. Mine was simple; dad was a truck driver, I wanted to own one.
When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.
My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.
I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into.
I can jump on to a kitchen worktop from standing, like Tigger. It was something my dad could do, and I copied it from him.
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.
Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.
Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.
Obviously, drafts sometimes are good ones, or bad ones; I think you can get a good, quality player late in the lottery.
I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.
You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
