The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect--but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.
You had to be tough in our neighborhood.
Play more than one sport in high school. If you play, say, football and basketball, you can learn to be physical and you can take those physical aspects of both sports and become better in both sports. Basketball players use some of the same skills football players do and vice versa.
In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too.
If I had stayed with football in college, I probably would have been a first-round pick.
I'd like to be a 5-10, 205-pound running back. I think it's natural for big guys to want to be a little faster.
High school football in Detroit was not easy at all. There were talented players everywhere.
My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.
Power, that's one thing, but love of family and of siblings is more important, is more powerful than any other power - at least earthly power, at least earthly power.
With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.
Being able to play a role where you're there almost every day and you're just in it. . . I remember it was a whirlwind, but it was a lot of fun.