He always had it so easy. He was so much better than anybody else in high school. Now the competition was catching up with him and he was having trouble staying on top of the learning curve.

In practice in high school, it definitely wasn't easy ... The competition day-to-day [at Mason] is intense, everyone's in your face.

I went to high school in Stockton, CA.

I don't want to make this a racial thing, because it shouldn't be. But it is significant because it was the first time.

When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.

I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?