The NCAA wants to control the images; they say they own your image forever. If you look through this façade, it's crazy.

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.

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.

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

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 hate in heart can consume you not outside events.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

China is a much richer country than any part of Europe.

There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.

Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.

You're anachronistic when you know that your feelings aren't going to have any effect on anything.

The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them.

Devotion is not about a God. Devotion is about you making your emotions so sweet that your life experience becomes beautiful.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

I believe in nothing.