I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

In America, it is difficult to be your own man.

I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.

If I'm remembered for having done a few good things and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.

Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's.

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.