I think in an ideal world celebrities do have a responsibility in many different areas to be role models.

I was a man who played basketball and after I played basketball and before I played basketball I was going to be a psychologist, whereas most people who play their occupation is their definition - and then when they stop doing who they are, they become nothing.

We need to get past the point where being black and a male means that I am likely to mug you for your wallet, likely to have a minus 15 on my IQ, likely to not go to college and likely to wear my pants below my arse.

You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets.

In my experience, it's only people who don't play sport at a professional level who think that there is anything remotely erotic about a locker room.

I think that we ill-prepare athletes from the very beginning. From the moment they pick up a ball or kick or whatever it is they're doing. We ill-prepare them. Especially with the major sports. What you see is this cycle of entitlement that gets thrown their way, so the kid who is in junior high and hasn't finished his test, but still gets to play because he is an athlete, fails the test and still gets to play because they're an athlete, gets to get away with not doing chores at home because they've got practice.

I don't need to think that I'm being loomed over my shoulder in order to behave in a way that's moral.