“Fifty percent of life in the NBA is sex. The other 50 percent is money.”

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.

I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you’re looking at him. Elvis isn’t dead; he just changed color.

Why should I try to make you believe the things I believe in?

It’s a different story because guess what, the kid is only 28 years old, 28. He’s not his dad, not his grandpa. He’s 28 years old.

I’m the basketball version of a gravedigger.

You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.

I can score 20 points if I want to, but that’s not my desire.

There’s no image we can’t improve.

To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.

I’m sorry to inform you that your 50 year warranty has expired on your back, knees, and memory.

Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent.

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.

I kind of liked all the creeping stuff [in Fifty Shades Darker], like when they’re sleeping and there’s me just standing behind the bed. It was great.

When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.

When I turned 50, I looked in the mirror and I thought: “Hey, this isn’t the dress rehearsal, this is life and I don’t know how much longer I’m going to have!”

Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.

In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.