Quotes from Maverick Carter

One thing about Ron Artest, he's a hooper.

I know LeBron will be owning a basketball team or maybe even a football team.

Once the world sees you as that one thing, and the better you are at that thing, the more you can only be that thing.

I'd never contemplated being in TV and film. But I love working with athletes and talent and shaping great stories.

In my day-to-day life, I did learn to be passionately curious from my dad and always search and have a hunger for knowledge and want to understand why things work the way they do.

I think in order to achieve real change, we as the black community need to come up with real asks and we have to determine, what do we actually want? We obviously want some social reform, on police brutality and things like that. We also need political changes. But it's more than voting. What are we as black people asking of these politicians?

I have to bend my knees now when I pick my son. No more bending from the waist.

Bet on yourself and be... more than.

I don't like to do press. But I know sometimes I need to do it because every time I do there's young people - black and white, but I think about young African-Americans because that's the experience I grew up with - who hear it.

With '89 Blocks,' we found a special story that needed to be told.

I turn to people who've been successful running networks, building production companies, building music companies, and people who have done it, and I ask them about their successes. And you will see them light up and give you all the information you need.

People want to see something they're not sure they should be seeing.

What would surprise people about working with LeBron is he's really into the things that he's into. And I think people don't understand that. They just think he's a basketball player, he's super busy. But he actually pays attention.

LeBron and I have always been about finding companies that we truly believe in and putting real money into them. We're not talking putting in $15,000 or $20,000. It's real money plus the expertise, understanding and knowledge that we bring, as well as bringing LeBron's name and likeness to the product.

I have survivor's remorse.

I still deal with impostor syndrome. It's a very real thing.

When you grow up in a place like where we were, no matter how talented you are, if you don't even know that other things exist, there's no way for you to ever feel empowered because you're like, I'm confined to this small world.

It's impossible to get to a billion dollars by endorsement deals. The biggest deals only take you so far. It's how you make money when you're asleep that's going to get you there.

LeBron is always interested in giving fans a very close and detailed look at his life.

Getting a reward for reaching certain sales targets is certainly attractive.

Whether it's a film, a television show, an event or a pair of shoes, everything Uninterrupted does comes back to the fundamental belief that every human is multidimensional and should be empowered to share their own story.

I will never forget being in Akron the day the I Promise School opened its doors for the very first time. You could just feel the magnitude of that moment.

People love winners.

There's a difference between Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Brooklyn and Queens. There's a difference.