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The most important family value of all is time with your family.
It is remarkable how surprising Zika has been. This is the first time we have had a mosquito-borne infection that can cause a devastating birth defect.
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.
I've spent a lot of time studying corporations and what makes them tick.
I was in business for 30 years, and my experience is that the best way to operate is to work fairly and closely with partners over a long period of time.
Back when the UFC first started, I wanted to see what MMA was all about; at the time, I was training with Tank Abbott, and so I went to see him fight. While at the fight, I saw this guy fighting that I just crushed in high school wrestling, and I thought, 'Hey, I'm a street fighter, and I have a wrestling background,' so I gave it a shot.
I'm invested in the UFC, but I'm invested in myself at the same time, showing everyone that I am one of the greatest.
We're fighters. We go out there, and we'll open a window of opportunity, and they're only open for so long, and we have to take advantage of that time right then. When I did it, I was 30-31 years old. Maybe it was a little too late that I should have did it, but I did it right. I was okay with the money that I got, the money that I made.
I don't do shows. I don't have reviews. I'm not putting the clothes on every celebrity so that by the time they reach the store the customers are sick of seeing them.
I'm a pretty calm person. That came from living in Italy for a long time. Nothing works, nothing is on time. You have to learn to deal with it.
You tell your players all the time: 'Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.' I think I'm in a position where I can help be part of the solution that's even way bigger than basketball.
The one-and-done thing is a phenomenon. I don't know if it's going to last, if it's going to be that way all the time. It's going to be something that we're all going to have to deal with. But I don't think it's the norm.
All that being a college coach has done, is it's reaffirmed the need to take care of our young people. They're the ones that are going to make a difference. We spend a lot of time blaming them for stuff, and not enough time mentoring them and helping them stand on their own two feet.
I feel like I spend a lot of time in the inner cities and around different people, and always felt like I had a good relationship. But when I saw what I saw with George Floyd, it sickened me. I said it and it did. It was real and it was disappointing, but it was disgusting.
Politicians have always been required to be fake, but now the career havoc wrought by a stray, flying sound bite means they have to sustain their fakeness all the time.
It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation.
I wish my daughter wasn't spending time thinking of Kim Kardashian or Rihanna.
It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time.
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