I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

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 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.

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.

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.