Usually when an athlete gets a reputation it sticks with him, even when he's an old man.

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

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."

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

I criticize the NFL in many ways, but I think it's made great strides. I think college basketball, great strides. College football means so much to alumni, doesn't it? It sort of represents the school. It's when you go back; it's at the beginning of the school year.

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

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.