“I can’t begin to describe the amount of crap I’ve taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.”

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

I don’t want to be bulky and stiff.

The only time I’d played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team.

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.

I wear women’s leggings under my clothes, but no lingerie.

If you’re going to have sex, use a condom.

I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

Keeping us safe is really not my job; it’s the black guy’s [Obama’s] job. But I’ll tell you this: If I don’t finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something’s seriously wrong.

I’m trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive.

If I die young, everybody’s going to say they saw it coming.

People are threatened by me. Rich white, rich blacks, it doesn’t matter.

Karl Malone’s too high-class for a bum like me.

Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild.

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.

There’s one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.

Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

I don’t like to live in fear about things like rumors and backlash to begin with – that’s the way I was raised – but I just can’t see what’s so wrong about being gay.

Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.