“People are threatened by me. Rich white, rich blacks, it doesn’t matter.”

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.

And you would have lost. We were surrounded. He threatened your life, and he would have made good on that threat. He had you, and that meant he had me, too.

Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it.

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

At a time when the American family is threatened as never before, redefining it away from the union of one man and one woman only promises to weaken it as a child-rearing, values-conveying institution.

Choice is a national instinct. This capitalist bedrock of our prosperity and security is threatened by a Labour Party that wants to overthrow the whole system.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

The West does not understand how to deal with states that no longer have any authority and are threatened by dissolution. Their efforts failed in Iraq as well as Afghanistan.

We always feel threatened by things we don’t know. But, there are definitely some weird things going on.