If you're a white kid growing up and you see a Black player and he's got the name of your college or your town across his chest, that means something.

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

I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.

If the players aren't getting paid, there's something terribly, terribly wrong, and that's true only in the United States. Everywhere else, where money is involved with sport, the players get paid. But these poor kids in college, they're doing it for free, and that's just disgraceful.

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

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

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."