Pete Maravich

My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.

They don't pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes.

I got by on talent. That was my fatal mistake.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.