High school football in Detroit was not easy at all. There were talented players everywhere.

I'd like to be a 5-10, 205-pound running back. I think it's natural for big guys to want to be a little faster.

You had to be tough in our neighborhood.

If I had stayed with football in college, I probably would have been a first-round pick.

I try to find out what the guy's strengths and weaknesses are. Like in boxing, I'd be a counter-puncher. Whatever he does well, I try to take advantage of what he doesn't do well.

A dunk is nice because it can create momentum, but it's not as good as scoring a touchdown.

In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too.

In high school, every last one of the passing schemes was designed for me.

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

Being is the greatest paradox of life in front of death.

Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?

If you want your wife to listen to you, talk to another woman.

I have weathered many different storms and I know who I am and my friends know who I really am.

You cannot succeed if at some point you haven't failed.

It seems that many health professionals involved in antenatal care have not realized that one of their role should be to protect the emotional state of pregnant women

He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.

I try not to worry about things that I can't control.