If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

Music is really something that makes people whole.

The lifespan of most professional athletes is relatively short, and most have no preparation for doing anything after their career ends, which it could in an instant.

Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got paid throughout American history, through a strong union.

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

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.

When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching