Beginning in 1978, Nike paid coaches to put their shoes on the team.

Now the kids are portrayed as dirty when they talk to an agent, a shoe guy, some hanger-on. Well, it's only natural that people are circling them - there are millions of dollars involved.

The NCAA wants to control the images; they say they own your image forever. If you look through this façade, it's crazy.

In terms of my work with Nike, obviously signing Michael Jordan to a $500,000 contract in 1984 set a new precedent for the business side of the game.

Kobe [Bryant] had the biggest contract for a high school kid. He was the first one to get more than a million a year.

People will always go to games. And not just Duke versus North Carolina. Even Appalachian State against Chatworth.

Very unfairly, there's a negative image of the kid, which really stems from the greed and selfishness of the NBA and NCAA. They're forcing these kids to go to school.

Never look too far to find a family. Your neighbour is your closest family.

When the Self is freed from mind there are no limits to what one can experience.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

[God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom.

Because you don’t ever find things when you’re looking for them. You find them when you’re not.” “If that were true, nobody would ever find their keys.

I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.

For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.

Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday.

The Lord put it clearly: you cannot serve two masters. You have to choose between God and money.

Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).