It's hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I'm talking to them.

I won’t react to something just because I’m supposed to, because I’m an African-American.

It's hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I'm talking to them.

Nobody in the world can guard me one-on-one.

The hunger [to success] is the same, no matter what it is that you're doing. It's like an unquenchable thirst to learn more, or to feel like you could have done more, and to be brutally honest and self critical, which is very hard to do. It's easy, and human nature is to just blame somebody else. It's very, very hard to self assess.

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

My brain . . . it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, 'You're a failure' . . . I think that's almost worse than death.