I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.
I'm a pretty good winner. I'm a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.
You can't go out and practice average on Wednesday, average on Thursday, okay on Friday and then expect to play well on Sunday.
I think sometimes in life the biggest challenges end up being the best things that happen in your life.
That taught me how to work harder. I learned all about mental toughness on the practice field. If things weren't working out for me in high school, in college, early in my pro career, my solution was always to work harder and internalize. That way, whenever I got an opportunity, I was always prepared. See, there are a lot of guys who are all talk. They say they want to work harder and be the best, but they never pay the price. I love paying the price.
I would never do anything outside of the rules of play.
If you don't play to win don't play at all.
Some things I thought were important for a young man to know.
I was raised on Josh White, the Weavers and Pete Seeger. The music was everywhere. You'd go to a party at somebody's apartment and there would be fifty people there, singing well into the night.
What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?
I still think I love him more. It's one of those things you never know for certain because there's no way to enter all the relationship data in a computer and have it spit out a definitive answer. You can't quantify love, and if you try, you wind up focusing on misleading factors.