I've kept in touch with many of my former teammates: Bob Marcucci was our team manager and we bonded over our passion for baseball.

Alexander Hamilton realized that warfare was part and parcel of human nature, and it's something we had to prepare for.

After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap.

What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new generation of players.

I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

I love basketball, but playing basketball doesn't fully define who I am. I was always a good student, too.

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.