So much has been said about Michael Jordan as a basketball player, but when I played with him, the Michael I knew was just Michael. I guess more than anything is that I got to experience the human side of the so-called gladiators, warriors and heroes that we worship.
Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
I love boxing. I like to see the strategizing. Watching the warriors go to work. I like that struggle, going out there and fighting.
I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
There's a lot to learn from the family of a soldier as much as the soldier. Actually, 'warrior' is a better word.
With Dad, he was the ultimate wildlife warrior, and we admired him more than anything.
The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.
We have an incredible warrior class in this country - people in law enforcement, intelligence - and I thank God every night we have them standing fast to protect us from the tremendous amount of evil that exists in the world.
'Amores Perros' and 'Once Were Warriors' had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me.
My look is 'Poly'n'Asian' - part Polynesian native, part Asian warrior.
