If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.
When I got hurt, I wanted to develop my skills from a storytelling perspective, do the work, read books. Develop things. To be the storyteller for basketball, period.
When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.
Let's remember that Bruce Rauner has every interest in getting stories out there that hurt Democrats.
My joints hurt. I'm slower. But I remember what it was like to run and play with the boys. I want to be one of the boys.
I've been in crisis situations, I've been down, I've been hurt, I've been behind on the scorecards, and I've had to pull that shot out to knock somebody out. I've been in all kinds of situations and still come out on top.
I grew up playing with kids from Hurt Village, playing with kids from other housing projects, Lamar Terrace, because my grandmother lived in that particular area. So, I always wondered how I would have turned out if I would have lived in that particular given circumstance.
I hypnotized myself so in my subconscious, I believed I couldn't get hurt. And I don't mean 'believe' - I mean believe believe believe.
Of course every fighter, whether they admit it or not, they have aches and pains and they go into fights hurt.