I am a salesman, I am an executive, I look at budgets, I think about power politics, but then I am also a creative person.
I'm a modern-day renaissance man.
We are a family of professionals, especially doctors. Thanks to my father, I got exposed to a whole lot of things. I call him a Renaissance man.
Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well.
My mother, Ms. Nippy Carville, was a woman of many talents.
Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I think he saw that I was different. I learned that oftentimes, Spike directs in a sense that he might just stare at you and look at you in a telepathic way of communicating.
You don't know Jay-Z's scedule. He's a renaissance man.
I definitely feel like I'm more of an artist than an athlete. But I'm good at both.
There is more to Shannon Briggs than a fighter.
I'm more than a fighter and not just a pretty face.
As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.
At home I'm just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music.
I'm not one of those football people who thinks and talks nothing but football.
I'm a very creative person in general. I like to create stuff in my downtime off the court. If I were to tell you everything I do, you would be like, "Do you really play tennis?"
My father was a very special human being. He was brilliant in academics, sports and the arts. He wrote, performed and directed plays in English and Hindi/Urdu at his regiment.
Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.
