I personally love watching greats like Matt Lauer, Scott Pelly, Howard Cossell, Bryant Gumble and others that can stimulate an intelligent, thoughtful, moving conversation or interview.
Kobe Bryant demands his teammates to be the best every night, and he's not afraid to challenge them. He's not afraid to challenge them publicly, he's not afraid to challenge them in the locker room, and that's what you need from a leader.
The only thing that can blow away the Michael Jordan sad face meme, is the Floyd Mayweather knockout meme. If Floyd Mayweather got knocked out - knocked out to the point where he is ice cold on the ground - I think that's the one meme that can just overwhelm the whole Jordan issue.
I hope people remind me of my accident every day of my life. Because that means I'm a prime example of somebody who had it and lost everything and may not have gotten it back in the same capacity but still reinvented myself.
There's different types of coaches in life. I don't have to be a coach on the basketball court. I can be a coach for businesses. I can be a coach for kids. I can be a coach for people who have gone through adversity, because everyone has had some type of damn accident in some form or capacity.
The rules within the educational system really teach you not push the boundaries, or not to think outside the box. They teach you to think inwardly about what's in the box.
In dealing with athletes or celebrities or people in general, I think there's a tendency to get on their pedestal or their platform and just kind of blow the ink.
People associate strength with physical, and that's the wrong assumption. You're as strong as your mind is.
I think Villanova is a really good basketball team and Jay Wright's a great coach.
For me personally, I played better when I was angry.
If you have a team that believes in one another that's ok, but you still need that individual motivation.
The thing about being a kid is you're going to make mistakes in the heat of the moment.
I was a scorer in college. That was the one thing that I loved to do, I loved to score the basketball.
You always have to knock down shots in order to win big-time games.
Nolan Smith is going to be a guy that can drive to the basket, can create his own shot.
I've dreamed about being in the Final Four since I was a little boy.
I was very close to having my whole leg amputated. It was a life-altering event. It took years of rehab.
I'd be remiss if I didn't say that a lot of my identity was formed around basketball, and after the accident I had a lot of animosity toward myself because I'd lost the one thing I wanted to do for my entire life.
Five years before my accident in 2003, you saw Kobe and Shaq pull up to games on bikes. Michael Jordan owned a racing team. So it wasn't that weird that I was on a motorcycle, even though it was against team rules. You've got to live your life, you know? But yeah, I made a dumb choice.
I love journalism and broadcasting. So I'm happy about my life and I wouldn't change a thing.
