I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.

When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching

I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the director needed to have lived the culture of black Americans.

Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.

I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it.

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.

A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.