“I’ve got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.”

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.

When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.

When they gave me that trophy, bro, I cried.

At least 50 times. I’ve jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I’ve been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns.

I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.

I’m starting to see players copy what I do. I’m flattered.

If Lebron was playing in the late 80’s and early 90’s, just an average player

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

I don’t fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I’ve been punished financially for it.

My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.

It’s amazing that Bill Clinton could do one thing and have sex with his secretary and really get away with it and still be powerful.

Larry Bird is overrated in a lot of areas. … Why does he get so much publicity? Because he’s white. You never hear about a black player being the greatest.

Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive.

I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.

Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns.

The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe’, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

I don’t want to do business with those who don’t make a profit, because they can’t give the best service.