You play with your soul as well as your body.

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

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

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.

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

In January of 1969, after a meeting to discuss the leadership of UCLA's new Afro-American Program, [Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr.] were murdered on campus by a rival black nationalist group, the United Slaves Organization. This shook up all the students, black and white, and made us all realize that what we were doing wasn't just an academic exercise, but had repercussions in the real world.

Yoga is somewhat hard to quantify in terms of benefits because you see them in all the injuries you don't get.