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.

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

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.

I was glad to be made awarethat “Veimke” (jeune fille au pair), is subject to natural law, and can be made fat, by such things as poor diet, and alcohol.

Meditation is not hard to understand. Anyone who knows how to worry knows how to meditate. Worriers are skilled in the meditation process but are meditating on the wrong kind of thoughts.

Being your age is hard enough without having to act it.

And to all the doctors and people who said there was no hope for children with progeria and they don’t live long I want to say, ‘You’re wrong.

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

To me, fast food is when a cheetah eats an antelope.

The soul establishes itself. But how far can it swim out through the eyes And still return safely to its nest?

Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?

The very highest is barely known. Then comes that which people know and love, Then that which is feared, Then that which is despised. Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

I think that the dramas that you find in TV are actually a lot more interesting, typically, than what you find in cinema.