“I gotta win games. Because if we lose games, and I score a lot, they going to say I’m scorin’ too much.”

This is the thing you dream about when you’re a kid, even before getting into the league.

God gave me all this; why waste the talent that he gave me? Why not go full throttle with it all and try to become in the class with the greatest players that ever played the game? That’s just a great feeling.

I don’t care. I feel like if we don’t make a trade, we have to get it done with what we’ve got.

I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.

Don’t nobody wanna talk about or hear about somebody donating money to a charity. You wanna hear about what Bin Laden is doing and what you think is on his mind.

I’m a father; I’m a friend. I think I’ve got the biggest heart in the world. A lot of times, that’s not a good thing. It’s a gift and a curse.

I make all that money and it ain’t enough. I gotta make more to help all the people around me.

I wish there was a season where I was playing and didn’t have no aches, no pains, no bruises, no nothing.

I don’t really care too much about what people who don’t care about me say about me, but a lot of times, you know, I get tired of defending myself.

Larry Brown molded me into an MVP and a Hall of Fame player.

It was a blessing just to play one NBA basketball game.

Guys is supposed to be able to be original and dress like how they want to dress. The NBA can’t dress no grown man.

You gotta do what you gotta do. And I had to figure that out, and I used to – I couldn’t stand the media, but I realized they have a job. They gotta do what they have to do.

I can’t take it back. I can’t take anything back. So I don’t regret it.

I felt like I was better at football than I am in basketball.

I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I’m not the person that the media make me out to be.

[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself.

I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I’d draw a big ram’s head, really messy.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

I never did say that you can’t be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I’d trip her up.

Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop.

Winning is a habit.

As long as I’ve got a chance to beat you I’m going to take it.