Political Quotes

“the reason I want to do that is because I remember ``Big Cat.'' When I was a boy, I remember when he broke into the NBA, and he was an outstanding basketball player. The prejudice that occurred back in those days was unbelievable. I played sports at Shortridge High School, and we used to go down to a place called St. Andrews and we played against some really great basketball players who understood how the game was to be played. Big Cat said, and I just read his biography, his background here, said it was tougher playing basketball on the grass courts and the asphalt courts than it was when he went into college and the NBA, and I can attest to the fact that that was pretty rough basketball. We played against a guy, he probably doesn't remember me very well, but we played against a guy named Oscar Robertson back in the fifties who was a pretty good basketball player from Indiana. And ``Biscuit'' Williams and Herschel Turner and some of the other guys that had to endure the prejudices of that time were really outstanding basketball players. You have to give an awful lot of credit to people who were willing to fight and overcome the racial prejudice and barriers that existed at that time. So Big Cat gets my vote, along with Oscar Robertson and all these other guys. I really admire them for what they went through, and I also admire them for their basketball ability. I am telling you, some of those guys were unbelievable.…”