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Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that's why people gravitate to that so much.

Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.

I hate to lose, and I do whatever I can to win, and if it is ugly, it is ugly.

If you don't want to win, you don't want to be around me.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

War's not black and white; it's gray. If you don't fight in the gray area, you're going to lose.

If you win, if you make money. If you do quality work, then other people of color, whatever color that is, can get in the door.

I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going to be the bar against which you are judged, whether you want to align yourself with those themes or not. You can think of yourself as a colourless person, but nobody else is gonna.

You have to win something for people to think about you.