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

Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why are they angry? Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head—even if in the end you conclude that someone else's head is not a place you'd really like to be.

There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

Nobody accomplishes success by themselves.

I'm necessarily parasitic in a way. I have done well as a parasite. But I'm still a parasite.