Understand that you own nothing. Everything that surrounds you is temporary. Only the love in your heart will last forever.
Unless you plan to out-rebound and out-shoot everyone you play, then you better learn to handle the ball.
You must be sure that you give back something that's beneficial to the game. Any of the teaching you do must be for the benefit of the men who play.
We are not going to play them; they are going to play us.
Think and then act. Never act and then alibi.
Treat each player as your own sondaughter if you can. . . the parents have invested in you.
Everyone should want to excel in life. You should never take the desire to excel away from the human race.
There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.
The positions I played, every play, I was making contact, not like that Deion Sanders. He couldn't tackle my wife. He's back there dancing out there instead of hitting.
I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.
I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.