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

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.

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

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.

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.

The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no actions.

Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.

I'm swamped with input. I want input, but I am so far behind on what I got here that I can't keep up with what people are sending me.

We have to take people that are here illegally, and we have to move them out. And you know what? It's going to be done.

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

Whatever rappers wear is cool to people.

Everything bigger than life attracts a crowd.

A man came up to me the other day and said he hadn't had a bite in weeks. So you know what I did? I walked by him like he didn't even exist.

The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his ... genius.

The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.