If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.

I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that's when I started to relax.

It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs. We should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.

What people don't understand is joining a gang ain't bad, it's cool, it's fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it's cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family's in the gang. We're not just killing people every night, we're just hanging out, having a good time.

I'm not rapping, I'm conversing. It's just a conversation between me and you.

When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.

The message is always going to get through. Me being able to speak is a message in itself.