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.

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.

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

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

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.

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.