I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.
I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.
When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.
NASCAR stepped up their safety concepts, and I think the drivers feel NASCAR is doing everything that can be done. So we are a little behind NASCAR in that respect. Someone in NASCAR realized there were certain things that could be done to make it safer. The same thing has to happen in football.
I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And a movie doesn't have to be about race just because there's a Negro in it.
I don't teach kids to be No. 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be No. 1; that's not it. You don't have to be No. 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.
Money has changed today's black athletes. Those who have the ability as African men to bring a change in a community that so desperately needs it are concentrating only on their own careers, some charities and how much money they can make.
The need to be cared for is the base of everything. In the penitentiaries, you won't hear gangbangers and criminals say, 'No, I don't want to be cared for by nobody.' When you care about them, they'll open up to you.
If you truly believe something, and it's incorrect, that doesn't mean you don't have integrity.
There have been so few decent films involving Negroes that right away everybody expects every film to do everything. But when you make a flick, there are maybe two things you're trying to put into that flick. You can put the other things in another time.
If you help disabled children, it's very appealing. If you help kids with cancer, those are the things you get credit for and those things are beautiful. But when it comes to stopping violence or really putting the time into rebuilding schools, that's just a different kind of project. It takes more than just money to do that.
The truth is that politicians are basically tied to trying to get reelected, so they can't really make landmark changes.
I'm a fan of NASCAR, in a certain kind of way.
Money has stepped to the forefront of everything.
If you want experiences to make you a better person, then you play two or three sports.
I would never try to motivate anyone to follow me. I would motivate him to follow certain principles.
I know a lot of kids that if you don't know how to deal with them, you lose them. They don't come ready-made.
I don't feel I could've played major league baseball.
I played basketball, and I loved it. But I never thought of it seriously as being a professional.
When I think of greatness, I think of guys like Earl Campbell and Gale Sayers and Walter Payton, and these individuals who, it's unanimous they're going to make a difference - when they're coming out of college, there's no doubt.
