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

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.

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

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

My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.

I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.