Metta World Peace

I wasn't interested in you changing your opinion on me right away, even though I was probably hurt by some of these opinions coming at me from millions of fans and hundreds of media.

I have a unique experience from that perspective.

But I also said, weather the storm, still be vulnerable, still let people inside your life.

And then gradually, you can show who you are on the philanthropic side.

And then your life is your life.

So I accepted that my life is my life, but I also accepted that I'm doing something even bigger now.

The media is better today when we first got it.

If I came out and said I needed help taking medicine, whatever, back in 1999, whatever, media was more like, you're weak.

This guy is weak.

Get him off your team.

And the fact is, back then, in the locker room, a lot of things were suppressed.

Things people didn't see.

People were depressed.

They didn't know how to manage money, how to grow, what to do.

Should I get into entertainment?

Should I start rapping?

What should I do?

People had no... A lot of players, they didn't have an understanding.

Now, luckily, in the NBA...

Those problems can be mass because you can get a $100 million coach's contract.