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 grew up thinking the best job in the world would be a Jedi and being a psychologist is the closest thing I could get, so I wanted to be a Jedi and I don't want to be a Sith, so that is what keeps me on the straight and narrow.

I think it's too easy to just say that there is a direct and necessary conflict between black identity and gay identity. I think it's more nuanced than that simply because I think black is a color and then people layer on top of it all kinds of socio-cultural elements.

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'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.

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

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.