But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.

As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to negotiate.

Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.

There's never a benefit to bragging too much about a deal because the only sure thing is that I'm probably going to be dealing with that same general manager or that same person over and over again.

Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they don't miss it and don't ask for it. It becomes self-perpetuating. They don't know what they're missing.

So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.

Well, when you've had Tom Cruise play you, anything else is a comedown.