Eric Williams
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"Eric Eustace Williams" served as the first List of Prime Ministers of Trinidad and Tobago/Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. He served as prime minister from 1962 until his death in 1981. He was also a noted Caribbean historian, and is widely regarded as "The Father of The Nation."

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My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.

I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do.

You can't help but to think about it, that you're going to have a lot of people that probably know you or have known about you that, even fans that's not rooting for you, but they know I represent New Jersey, they can identify where I'm at, and looking up to an individual like myself who came from the inner city and who made it.

I was going to be a part of something, but I really ain't a part of nothing. So I'm pretty much wasting my f---in' time. You try to be a professional, but f--- professionalism.

We will be able to handle this situation just fine.

I don't know, in particular what factors she wants to change from state to state, I can assume it means she wants to change the ability of known offenders being out on the street, increasing the length of prison terms and those types of things.

You couldn't have a better ally in an effort where you are trying to do good things for children and society than Oprah, because she's Oprah.

It's an improvement to the older, established neighborhoods. They are all three oil-and-chip streets.

We're expecting to have some work done this fall and shut down through the winter.