We can learn from mistakes of others, whether they're kings or our parents. When we do learn those lessons, we're better equipped to make our own dreams come true.

I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

The Sixties was a perfect storm of disaffection with political leaders trying to pass off the same old platitudes to maintain the status quo and an unexpected courageousness in the masses of youth. Nothing on this scale had ever happened before in U.S. history and it hasn't happened since.

My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me in the end.

UCLA acknowledged this shift by bringing in Alex Haley (the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X) and Eldridge Cleaver (Soul on Ice) as speakers.

I'm not going to emphasize the sky-hook as much as work with the specific skills of the guys.