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.

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.

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.

Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.

A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.

He who, calm and clear as the moon, hankers no more for continuity-he is holy.

Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

The extravagant and ostentatious lifestyles that pass for charisma in a time when almost anybody talks about charisma but if you think about it there's precious little to be seen.

I'm looking for a perfume to overpower men - I'm sick of karate.

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.

The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.

Imagining what you want as if it already exists opens the door to letting it happen.