I'm a conservative Jew, which means I don't do everything.

It was much more competitive than I thought it would be.

The warehouse with all those crates, thousands of them, stretching out as far as the eye can see. 227 metric tons of fish from around the world-fish with muscular tails wide as a weight lifter's chest, fish with big, open mouths and shining eyes, fish from deep places and deep dreams.

I wasn't that good on defense.

Like Coach (Danny) Miles (at Oregon Tech).

I learned a lot about myself.

They were huge and the whole team was over 6-5. We were basically a bunch of college guys, and we were pretty upset after the loss to the Israeli team.

Coach Brown has been all over the world and knew how to play international basketball.

I felt safe in the environment.