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

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.

The NBA’s chosen ones think I’m setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously.

Is sending the Harlem Globetrotters and Dennis Rodman to the DPRK strange? In a word, yes.

Being out there in the ocean, God’s creation, it’s like a gift He has given us to enjoy.

People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

There are things that are a given, that you’ve already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can’t be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.

There is no truth which cannot be given in fifty words; the truth is always concise.

But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.

I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.

Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That’s just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is.