My pipe dream? Was to be the Pistol.

Career college points per game average(all-time leader): 45

"He was the original. He was the real Showtime." Magic Johnson

"The radio was playing and the morning news was on. I was startled to hear that Pete Maravich, the basketball player, had collapsed on a basketball court in Pasadena, just fell over and never got up. I'd seen Maravich play in New Orleans, when the Utah Jazz were the New Orleans Jazz. He was something to see--mop of brown hair, floppy socks--the holy terror of the basketball world--high flyin'--magician of the court...He could have played blind." Bob Dylan from his autobiography, "Chronicles"

"Died...because he was born without one of the two artery systems that supply the heart with blood. The finding stunned cardiologists since the nearly unheard of condition is usually assumed to preclude strenuous activities. It usually kills its victims before they are 20." Los Angeles Times, 1/12/1988.

Had finally found happiness in life by having found Christianity. His last words were said on the basketball court just seconds before he collapsed..."I feel great".