Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.

Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success?

I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.

Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.

Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.

[Peter] Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I quickly gravitated to rock and roll music in the mid-'60s with the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana. So many of them are still around and still going strong. I go out to see them all the time.

Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can't do anything.