The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously. |
I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination. |
They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas. |
You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides. |
I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger. |
This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is. |
They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color. |
The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound. |
I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95. |
I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas. |
The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day. |
Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women. |
The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet. |
You can love me or you can hate me. |
With me, everything's right on the table. |
In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged. |
I'll be the judge of my own manliness. |
I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter. |
I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him. |
Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money. |