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

The Spurs couldn’t put everything aside and just play the damn game.

Why it’s been left to me to smooth things over, I don’t know. Dennis Rodman, of all people.

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

I want to be anywhere in the world that I’m needed. I want to spread a message of peace and love throughout the world.

I only weigh 220, so I have to do something to keep from being tossed around by all the guys who weigh 250 and more. I train hard, but I don’t try to get too big.

My last year with the Spurs, I was late to practice one time.

I’m fighting against becoming soft. That’s the worst thing you can say to a basketball player.

Some people want to have controversy between the races.

Madonna wasn’t an acrobat or anything, but the sex was good. I could tell she liked it.

There’s more impact if you burn somebody with your eyes, look straight into him and let him know with a look.

Everybody’s talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?

My rookie year, I was very immature.

I don’t feel anything when I watch Shaquille O’Neal play. I don’t feel anything coming off him.

I’m calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea, or as I call him, ‘Kim,’ to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose.

Create havoc, create destruction.

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

My mom always taught me – you know, little boys listen to their moms too much – that whatever you put into something is what you’re going to get out of it.

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you’re a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

If you love something, let it go. If you don’t love something, definitely let it go. Basically, just drop everything, who cares.

And you’d sure better not be doing it because it’s a way to make a living, ’cause that ain’t always going to be easy. You got to believe it, believe in the music. You got to mean it.

“Why doesn’t the fellow who says, “I’m no speechmaker,” let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration? “

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

If the federal government is going to cost $100 million or more of your jobs going away, at a minimum the people who are elected by the people ought to have to vote and say, yes, I support taking away your job; or no, I don’t support taking away your job.

I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.