[when told not to speak ill of the dead] 'Just because someone is dead does not mean they have changed!'

Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that?

I never speak ill of dead people or live judges.

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

I'm not dead. I mean, I may be getting older, but I'm not dead!

When he came to the Lakers, Bob McAdoo told me how much the game meant, how it changed everything, how it opened up the world for black kids in the South. I guess I never really thought of it that way, that we were such a big part of history.