“Fifty percent of life in the NBA is sex. The other 50 percent is money.”

I was confused as a kid. I was confused about my sexual identity.

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

If I don’t finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something’s seriously wrong.

If you have a problem with my answer that’s your problem, not my problem.

Don’t let what other people think decide who you are.

The Bulls talked to just about every person who ever met me.

It’s just like we do over here in America, right? It’s amazing that we have presidents over here do the same thing, right?

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

You can love me or you can hate me.

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn’t want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.

I’m very particular about who I sleep with.

I couldn’t care less if the guy I’m guarding has HIV. I’m going to slam him anyway.

The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.

What I saw in that country, I saw in that country and I saw people respect him and his family and that’s what I mean about that.

If I want to wear a dress, I’ll wear a dress.

For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.

If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you’re fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you’re reading a whole new book.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.

Stats don’t matter. I care about winning, not stats. If I score 0 points and we win I’m happy. If I score 50, 60 points, break the records, and we lose.

I don’t care how much you may think they’re funny or how interesting they may sound. If we nominate someone that 40 to 50 percent of our party doesn’t – can’t stand, we are going to lose.

As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.

In London the average person is paying 50 per cent of their income on rent. Just think how much better off people would feel if that number was a lot lower.