The joy sometimes is in the simple beauty.

In Hollywood, writers are considered only the first draft of human beings.

You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.

I think at its best, sport does bring us together.

I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball better than you play it."

So much of life, so much of work, is luck.

I think there are white alumni out there who wouldn't mind having an African American president of their school, but would be reluctant to have an African American coach, because he represents the school so. I think it's just sheer backward racism.