My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.

When I traveled through Greece in the '90s, everything [Albert Hoxie] taught me came flooding back and I was able to appreciate the art and culture much more because of him.

I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.

You play with your soul as well as your body.

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.