My priority will continue to be that we maintain the optimal balance to be able to invest in education and infrastructure while encouraging business growth.

That's a large part of the job as governor: to create and maintain the optimal balance.

I believe that our teachers need more freedom to be creative in the classroom in order to maximize the time students spend learning, not the time they spend taking tests.

When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.

Strikeforce is here to stay; we are definitely going to do our part to grow the sport and be good ambassadors of the sport.

When I was in prison, rap was all I had at that point because I was kicked out of school, all that education just gone and I couldn't come out of prison to play football - that was all over with.

Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.