When your team drops out, you make the ABA look bad.

Your team has to understand that coming into the ABA, you have to have your investments right and sponsorships and people ready to give you money so they can back you up.

I take my son to school and then I drive 45 minutes to practice with my ABA team, the Florida Pit Bulls, from 10 to 1. In the afternoon, I have meetings.

I did everything I could to establish myself, but it just didn't work that way. I'm not angry about that.

Everybody looks at his clothes to see what he's wearing.

You have to look at how chemistry develops.

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.

I think I have the skills. I'm a great judge of talent. I just know basketball.

I didn't like how my NBA career ended because I wanted to go out on my own terms. But nobody tried to believe in me, that I could go back and play. I can still play at 39.

I hate them with all the hate you can hate with. Can you hate more than that? If you can, I hate them more than that.

I've always thought if it's not broke, why fix it?

When your team drops out, you make the ABA look bad.

I'm not trying to get back on a team, but I have tried to stay in shape just in case a team needs a point guard. A championship team. I wouldn't go to any other team.

As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause.

I am committed to examining my feelings and will recognize, appreciate and respect the differences among people in our society.

I don't have a hate bone in my body.

I don't like gay people and I don't like to be around gay people. I am homophobic. I don't like it. It shouldn't be in the world or in the United States.

I grew up under the sticks and stones rule. I didn't put my hands on you so why should you put your hands on me or my family.

I respect people. For me to say 'hate' was a bad word, and I didn't mean to use it.

I was always taught if you do something, face the piper. Try to make it right.

I'm a goodhearted person. I interact with people all the time.

When I see gay people holding hands or kissing in the streets, I just don't think that's right.

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

I don't like yelling and fighting, and I can't quarrel.

I have crossed oceans of time to find you.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

The more we look at drug resistance, the more concerned we are. It basically shows us that the end of the road isn't very far away for antibiotics.

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

One of the many advantages of being a loner is that often there's time to think, ponder, brood, meditate deeply, and figure things out to one's satisfaction.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.

You have to live life to its full chorizo.

Marines are very good at fighting... And if Gen. Franks wants fighters on the ground and he puts Marines in, he'll have what he wants.

I've done some pretty bad things in my life.

If I'm in a serious play, I often think to myself, 'I could make that line funny.'

There are so many ways of posturing that people associate with being a writer. They imagine you wearing a beret and drinking only red wine and being full of yourself, and so, for a long time, the way I felt about writing was too private. I felt it too important and didn't want to be teased about it. So I lied about it.

By constant self-discipline and self-control, you can develop greatness of character.

The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is.

I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

One of the things I'm proudest of is, on my record 'That Was the Year that Was' in 1965, I made a joke about spending $20 billion sending some clown to the moon. I was against the manned space program then, and I'm even more against it now, that whole waste of money.

I would never complain about the position I'm in or the attention I get. At the end of the day, I'm very lucky to have what I have and do what I do, but I don't see myself as any different from anyone else who works hard and is a dad and a husband.

My golf score is really bad. I don't know. I'm definitely not a good golfer. Off the tee box, I can drive it about 275, and I'm in the fairway about 99% of the time. It's my next shot that needs work.

The meat in the sausage has got to be conservative.

Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days.

In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.