“Tattoos, cornrows, headbands, hip-hop. I never meant to start any trends. I got my butt kicked, but if that meant that the guys who came after me could be themselves, then it was worth it.”

I make all that money and it ain’t enough. I gotta make more to help all the people around me.

I wish there was a season where I was playing and didn’t have no aches, no pains, no bruises, no nothing.

I don’t really care too much about what people who don’t care about me say about me, but a lot of times, you know, I get tired of defending myself.

Larry Brown molded me into an MVP and a Hall of Fame player.

It was a blessing just to play one NBA basketball game.

Guys is supposed to be able to be original and dress like how they want to dress. The NBA can’t dress no grown man.

You gotta do what you gotta do. And I had to figure that out, and I used to – I couldn’t stand the media, but I realized they have a job. They gotta do what they have to do.

I can’t take it back. I can’t take anything back. So I don’t regret it.

I felt like I was better at football than I am in basketball.

I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I’m not the person that the media make me out to be.

I just feel this is my planet.

I couldn’t have accomplished the things in my career if I didn’t practice, and the worst part about that whole thing is when a kid comes up to me and says ‘Allen, I don’t like practice, either.’ I’ve got to straighten that kid right then.

I didn’t take constructive criticism the way I should have. When I finally caught up to that, that’s when I went to being the MVP.

Just because you put a guy in a tuxedo doesn’t make him a good guy.

I want to play basketball so bad.

I don’t have any problems with what these guys wear because they got their own style and their own originality. That’s the way it’s supposed to be, man.

There’s something really interesting about that as a trend, that whole idea of lifestyle and being happy in your surroundings.

The main trend with the theme episodes is that anywhere there is a misconception about the way the physical world works, we’re finding fertile material.

I’m actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.

Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends

California … is the place that sets the trends and establishes the values for the rest of the country; like a slow ooze, California culture spreads eastward across the land.

Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we’ll swing to heavy regulation.

Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.

Commercial rock ‘n’ roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.