"They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously."

"You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work."

"Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz."

"But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him."

"Divorce is a game played by lawyers."

"I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be."

"They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports."