“Sometimes I’m not even satisfied when I got 6 points and 22 rebounds, because I’m always looking to do more.”

I have one regret: I wish I was a better father.

I like to describe my life as a black hole with a little light out there.

Maybe my life isn’t great. We don’t have all the answers. Look at it from my side.

I’ve got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.

I can’t begin to describe the amount of crap I’ve taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.

I’ll be the judge of my own manliness.

These people didn’t know anything about black people, so the only thing they could imagine was the worst thing.

I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game.

The life I was leading was changing me into someone I didn’t even know.

I’m going to come out and tell it like it is.

It’s all about what they can get out of me.

I didn’t want to be known as Madonna’s playboy, her boy toy.

When I hit bottom, I can attack the problem and get to where I want to be.

Shaq is not the man. He’s the man because the NBA wants him to be the man, but before you can be the man, you’ve got to be the man.

I don’t trust what this life has given me.

I’m just saying I’m being myself, and people understand that.

Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.

If they are, they can fill in the details even better than I could, just with their imaginations.

They care about their club, and that’s why they always have something good to say, even when it is negative

I’ve been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I’ve never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I’m not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it’s got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.

I decided Widmore was the evilest of the evil, but in the end, not even the writers knew.

I don’t speak anything very well. The longer that you travel, you find out that you really don’t even need to speak the language to get around and get things done, to live in those places.

How can we quantify that? How can you even know that that’s what you have experienced? And what if at some point you fall to 85 percent or 70 percent?

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.