Spencer Haywood Quotes

#1. Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?

Bill Walton

#2. They wish not to become adult - not to have to accept our kind of responsibility. And yet like all children, they want to be thought grown up, and free to do what they think are grown up things. And that leads sometimes to tragedy and sometimes to the aftermath of tragedy.

Agatha Christie

#3. The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.

Ice Cube

#4. Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

R. W. Apple Jr.

#5. As soon as we become one with the ocean in the shape of God, there is no more rest for us, nor indeed do we need rest any longer.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. Time alone is pornography for people with families.

Victor LaValle

#7. The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Spencer Haywood

#8. Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.

John H. Aughey

#9. What is God trying to tell me? ... I'm just so tired. Why are people sabotaging me? Why, when I try to do something right, do people get angry?

Spencer Haywood