People don't rise from nothing.

The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.

If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford or Harvard, that might actually thwart your desire to graduate with a science or math degree.

It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems and how you deal with people.

I'm in the storytelling business, and so you're always drawn to the unusual. And early on, I discovered that's the easiest way to tell stories... If you come up through a newspaper as I did, your whole goal is to get a story on the front page, and you only get something on the front page if it's unusual.

Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.

I have a new way of doing things, and I don’t care if you think I’m crazy.