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I loved growing up in Tulsa.

Tulsa was the kind of place where you could go to any door and borrow a cup of sugar. Everybody knew everybody. Truthfully, I don't even remember dealing with any racism in our town; we all got along.

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.

You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.

You know, I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on me to get good grades and a scholarship and go to college.

I was a sports kid.

I don't know much about sports.

I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.