I don't climb mountains. Mountains climb me. The mountain is myself. I climb on myself.
You can do amazing things when people love you.
My philosophy was if they weren't calling you names, you weren't doing anything.
One kid said to me, he said, Mr. Lloyd, we really owe you. And I explained to him, man, you owe me absolutely nothing. I said, whatever kind of career I had, it has served me well, but you do owe some people. And the people you owe are the folks who are going to come behind you. It's incumbent upon each watch — when you play your 10, 11 years and you're in your group — when you leave, I truly hope that you've done all you can possibly do to leave it a better place for the folks who come behind you.
If you can compete, you are going to compete
Be black or white with no shades of gray. In other words, don't be a nagging mother.
While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.
We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brothers winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation. . . even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.