My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

Some stuff can be fixed, some stuff can’t be. Deciding which is which is part of maturing.

I don't know if I was the baddest. People kind of saw me in that light.

I could have skated by as an athlete, but the world is so much bigger and more interesting than any one thing. I didn't want to be pigeonholed as just a jock. I'm also an author, a student of history, and I collect memorabilia from the Wild West. I'm also a son, a father, and a friend.

But all was not sunshine and Marvin Gaye songs. [UCLA] also recruited black students as part of a High Potential Program that was meant to bring diversity to the campus. Two of the students that were part of that program were Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr., both members of the Black Panther Party's Southern California Chapter.