Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny.

It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.

I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.

International politics is no longer a zero-sum game but a multi-dimensional arena where cooperation and competition often occur simultaneously. Gone is the age of blood feuds. World leaders are expected to lead in turning threats into opportunities.

I wanted to play sports my whole life. That's all I really wanted to do.

Nobody actually played tennis in my family.

We are a traditional sport in an innovative society, and so trying to make change is always a task.