I'm going through the neutral zone and I've got a guy tugging me through the whole way, if I don't go down, I'm not going to get a call.

I was well-rounded, I'd been to college. It wasn't that I couldn't do anything else. I wanted to stay in sports, but if I couldn't think, how was I going to play?

Loneliness was an inseparable part of being human.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.

From an early age, music was my only thing. You come from Detroit, you learn how to make the most of what you can do best.

The riches of His free grace cause me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who is very vigilant, and seeks all occasions to disturb me.

He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.

Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?

When people meet me in person, they're usually surprised at how petite I am because there's just [an] idea that because I'm black I just look a certain way.

A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!