“Don’t go into debt and don’t spend a lot. It’s not how much money you make, it’s how much you spend.”

I wanted to use sports for social change.

The trouble with being number one in the world – in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don’t relax and enjoy it.

The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.

Don’t be afraid to hit the ball.

There’s no promises in any entrepreneurial business. You have to really work hard every year and also try to envision where you want to go in the future at the same time.

When I was outed, it was like, That’s done.

Sports are a microcosm of society.

A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

Champions take responsibility.

I will tell you King’s First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.

I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.

Pressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

Some people do have softer boundaries.

It’s really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you’re still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you’re a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.

Money is created through bank debt. When you go for a mortgage through a bank, they give you $100,000 to buy a house and basically send you out into the world to bring back $200,000 in the next twenty years. The first $100,000 is principal, and the second is interest.

When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

Refinancing doesn’t reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.

Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.