Rich Paul

“I learned nothing at C.A.A.”

“It's very difficult for me to represent a white player. It just is. Look around. There's very few. I represent a player from Bosnia. But, again, he's international. He looks at it different.”

“LeBron is the best player on the planet.”

“Players have always communicated with each other. Players have always played pick-up in the summer.”

“At 19 years of age, it's about building a foundation and having an understanding of why you do the things you do.”

“Growing up, we always had an affinity for fashion but had very limited resources to express ourselves, and few examples of what success could look like off the court.”

“I can't worry about what somebody thinks, the perception. All I can do is work hard and continue down the path that I'm on.”

“We used to say, There's nothing cool about being a dummy.”

“My motivation is to help ensure all young people of color live up to their potential and succeed in the face of the systemic inequality that remains as real today as ever.”

“Pressure is a terminology that doesn't align with my life. Where I come from, the pressures are totally different.”

“You can't worry about what people say.”

“I was watching 'The Godfather' at a very young age.”

“There is no easy way to break up with your wife.”

“I don't really like the word 'fair' because life isn't fair. But if you are committed to what you want to do and you feel like you belong, then the next best thing for you to do is to execute.”

“LeBron had no obligation to me. I was not entitled to anything. I wanted to be valuable.”

“We're a big family. We all want to see each other win. But I don't introduce myself as LeBron James' friend. I'm Rich Paul. You have to respect me first.”

“At the end of the day, I'm trying to find ways to do what we can and what's best for our guys. So that's what I do.”

“When I travel back to neighborhoods like the inner city of Greater Cleveland where I'm from, young black kids tell me that they see my career as another path for them out of their troubled surroundings.”

“When New Balance approached me about a collaboration, more than anything, I wanted to create something to inspire and empower young people coming up behind us - for boys and girls with creativity, passion and fearless determination to stay true to themselves.”

“We all know how this works. Unfair policy is introduced incrementally so people accept it because it only affects a small group. Then the unfair policy quietly evolves into institutional policy. I'm not sure what the technical term is for that because I didn't finish college but I know it when I see it.”