I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it.

People still cheat on their wives, that hasn't fallen out of fashion. We all speak of it badly, but it has not fallen out of fashion.

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

I could have skated by as an athlete, but the world is so much bigger and more interesting than any one thing. I didn't want to be pigeonholed as just a jock. I'm also an author, a student of history, and I collect memorabilia from the Wild West. I'm also a son, a father, and a friend.

I love basketball, but playing basketball doesn't fully define who I am. I was always a good student, too.

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.