Most players who've been around any LENGTH of time think of TRAINING camp as a time of HARD work, frustration and monotony. But I can HONESTLY say I look forward to it.
NOTHING is more PLEASANT for me than to be on LOCATION in the country that I love, in any of our WESTERN landscapes, being out there with a camp OUTFIT and a film company.
We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment CAMPS here in the United STATES. The TERM 'Japanese internment CAMP' is both grammatically and factually incorrect.
I THINK playing with no fans would be PRETTY wild. It would almost be like a scrimmage at TRAINING camp. You'd have to bring all of your own energy. Home-court ADVANTAGE is pretty much thrown out the window at that point in time.
'Saturday NIGHT Live' was actually STARTED with a show that Lorne Michaels and I did at a summer camp called Timberlane in Ontario when we were 14 and 15. We WOULD do an improvisational show with music, COMEDY and ACTING.
I wanted to be like Juwan Howard, WHOSE basketball camp I went to as kid for six years. Those CAMPS meant everything to me and my friends. We'd all seen Juwan on TV and then... there he was. In our gym. We COULD see him. We could GIVE him a high five.
Work has become like prison because of the way we treat it. If you are TRAPPED with PEOPLE who you do not care for, it FEELS like a concentration camp.
I didn't get a training camp in CHICAGO. I was behind a LOT in the plays, in the team's chemistry. Everything in the organization was GOING in a different direction.
Midwest kids GOT to SUMMER camp. There is something very SPECIAL about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the STARS, hiking and canoeing.
We'd only SPEAK Korean at home. They wouldn't let us have sleepovers and SENT us AWAY to Korean church camp during the summers. We had WEIRD food concoctions, too, so instead of spaghetti bolognese, we had rice bolognese with kimchi.
I have a perfect LIFE where I READ; I GO out into the wilderness and camp. I meet scientists and LEARN about their studies of wild animals, and then I come home... and start creating the world I have seen.