I'm not going to disappear.

The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.

When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

Initially when I stopped playing, I had accumulated some burnout.

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 just good for you.

I was latching on to something that was part of my heritage, because many of the slaves who were brought here were Moslems.