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I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

A professorship appeals very much because I enjoy being with younger people.

I don’t think my father was my mentor.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused.

Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer?

I get scared to death when I see people who say they’ve found Jesus Christ, and they’re out there, and I wonder, who’s teaching them? Who’s mentoring them?

What I learned most from my father wasn’t anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved his work so much that, whenever he came on set, he brought that with him, and other people rose to it.

So you’re dealing with a coach, and you’re dealing with a guy who’s actually experienced NBA basketball from a player’s perspective and actually goes about it that way.