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've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

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.

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.