I just wanted to be an athlete.

You are the land. The land is you.

It took me a while to realize that basketball wasn't football.

One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.

I do not believe that there is any secret or single formula for success, but there are common threads of thought and action that characterize the successful people that I have been fortunate enough to know and observe. I do know, from my own experience, that our chance of succeeding is much greater when we organize and take charge of our lives. When we are willing to make decisions, we aggressively pursue those things in life that are important to us.

The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn.

I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.