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

I'd probably have to leave home in order to become a basketball player of any note.

There was certainly nothing really sexual about my youth growing up, simply because the fact remains if you're the fat kid in a school and I was the only fat black kid in the school - in fact, I was the only black kid in the school - but if you are kind of ostracized on many different levels in your school the last thing you're worried about is sex.

I've been captivated by the idea of being on a basketball court and being surrounded by people who made me look a little bit less like a freak.

My particular interest area is working in issues of emotional literacy. What I see of the way that we educate boys and more than that, the way we socialize boys within their families and then in schools to me is tantamount to just removing any element of emotional intelligence from them.

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