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

I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player. I am a better person because of my failures and disgraces.

My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.

I had this fantastic collection of Grateful Dead T-shirts and live concert music the band had give me over all these years, decades of material, and when our boys became teenagers they started going through everything and wearing the shirts and listening to the music and that's what the Grateful Dead is all about.

I could smell colors, I could feel sounds.

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