“As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want.”

These people didn’t know anything about black people, so the only thing they could imagine was the worst thing.

I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game.

The life I was leading was changing me into someone I didn’t even know.

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.

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

What concerns this dress is a small thing – less than nothing. I did not take it by the advice of any man in the world.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

I want my fans to feel like we’re always in touch. Because without ’em, I wouldn’t be able to do any of this.

Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

If you become famous and don’t have a live show to back it up, they’re not going to pay you any money.

Any time someone achieves success before they’ve earned it, it always comes back to haunt them.