I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball better than you play it."

You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.

I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

I think at its best, sport does bring us together.

I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.

Hockey is the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight.

In Hollywood, writers are considered only the first draft of human beings.

If you're a white kid growing up and you see a Black player and he's got the name of your college or your town across his chest, that means something.

The joy sometimes is in the simple beauty.

So much of life, so much of work, is luck.

Laugh and smile for no reason at all. Giggle grins are a magnet for happiness.

Summerhill children are allowed to go through their gangster period, and consequentially more furniture is destroyed.

When life gives you lemons, make sure you know whose eyes you need to squeeze them in.

I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answer them for you.

Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.

I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Bound by Love, But sworn to Kill.

Proofs exist only in mathematics and logic, not in science.

I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.