As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my neighborhood in Philadelphia.

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

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

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.

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my neighborhood in Philadelphia.

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.