I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.

The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.