Above anything else, I hate to lose.

A newspaper reported that I spent $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.

I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.