“Keeping us safe is really not my job; it’s the black guy’s [Obama’s] job. But I’ll tell you this: If I don’t finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something’s seriously wrong.”

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.

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.

When I was 3, my father stopped coming home.

The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don’t become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren’t able to mold and shape and make their puppet.

I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks.

Black culture is something I don’t relate to much at all.