Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football.

The NFL today has bigger, stronger, bodies than ever, moving faster than ever, hitting a stationary object harder than ever before - so the physics of the hit have changed.

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man.

Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

I have to say that it was a very strange experience when, later in life, I represented Byron Scott and was negotiating with West - whose picture I used to have over my bed! That took some getting used to.

As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.

Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche.

Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.

Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen.

But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time.

When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.

It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.

Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models.

Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.

In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.

I ran track, and basically played every sport.

Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they don't miss it and don't ask for it. It becomes self-perpetuating. They don't know what they're missing.

It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives.

Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers.

But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.

Then the Angels came in 1961, and I fell in love with them.

My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.

The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.

I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation.

You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.

I try to live in the moment, every moment.

We're all negotiators.

Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football.

Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!

We live in a niche world.

Well, when you've had Tom Cruise play you, anything else is a comedown.

Challenge yourself, its fine not to be a totally finished person.

I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life.

The only thing certain about any negotiation is that it will lead to another negotiation.

Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interests you.

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

I've done a lot of basketball drills, not a whole lot of competitive stuff. I have basically been in the gym everyday working on my game, working on the time off that I've had from the game, just getting myself prepared mentally and physically for the season.

Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.

As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.

It's very warm there, so we were outdoors all the time. The local people had programs for us year-round, where as kids we had the opportunity to play football, basketball, baseball, track and field - we just went from one sport to the next, year-round.

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.