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If it ain't broke, don't break it.
I'm not the kind of guy you threaten.
A gentleman pays his debt within a week or two.
I'm a trendsetter. I'm a leader, not a follower.
If you're picky, you have to learn about cooking.
Do me a favor and don't make me out to be no hero.
I still can't believe I'm even in the NBA. Me? Hah.
If you see a man kiss me, I better be in my casket.
I'm just a piece of the pie, a slice of the pound cake.
One of the things about the NBA is anybody could be traded.
I'm all about having a good time and respecting my teammates.
Chicago was a good place for me. Maybe New York will be better.
I'm like a toll booth. Sooner or later, you have to come to me.
Potential is like a summer crop. If it don't rain, it don't grow.
I like Chicago. I've visited Chicago before and have family here.
I just don't like when you preach one thing and do something else.
If I would compare anybody to Michael Jordan, it would be Kobe Bryant.
If you a real true guy you don't talk about a guy after he is deceased.
You can't just score more points than last year without playing defense.
You can't play Around the World in the NBA, you've gotta go to the basket.
Just because there's glass on the road don't mean there's been an accident.
I don't like 7-footers shooting threes, it's a disrespect to the game for me.
I'm not a high jumper, but you don't see guys intimidating me or posting me up.
A shirt look good when you iron it but if you iron too much, it gonna get burned.
Most coaches are mostly small guards because they think guards have more knowledge.
There's been a thing with Detroit and the Bulls ever since I've been in the league.
You can't throw a hook on the side of the road and expect to catch a fish in the grass.
My thing was, if somebody talks about you this and that, you got to go prove them wrong.
If you have a horse that isn't winning any races, sooner or later you have to get a new jockey.
I guess I'm going to have to go Google myself and see why people think I shouldn't be coaching.
Every headline in the paper, I don't write them. My story's inside the paper, not the headline.
Even though I retired, I work out four to five days a week, run two to three miles, I play ball.
Knicks fans are the smartest in the world and they know you can't just play one end of the court.
In Chicago, they wanted Michael to do his thing and me to be just rebound. I'm more than a rebounder.
When I first got into this league, I knew a lot. But I made myself better by listening and working hard.
I always try to treat people with respect and I just don't know. I got three assault cases for no reason.
In the old days Michael Jordan and Larry Bird worked for everything they got. They worked hard on their game.
We had guys come out of high school, Moses Malone, Kevin Garnett, LeBron James, but all these guys could play.
I'm a veteran. I understand the game. I can control a game. I understand systems. I can play several positions.
I'm not a troublemaker. People say, 'You got into a lot of incidents.' Yeah, but it was on the basketball floor.
Back in our day and era, you had to have your potential and be ready to play right away. Everybody was talented.
Your offense might not be great every game, but defense is just about working hard and outworking your opponents.
They told me many times throughout my career to bite my tongue and I told them my tongue's been bleeding since I was born.
Why complain to the NBA and to the officials all the time, just like Tyrone Hill, always complaining about me on the court?
My thing was I had attitude every night. No matter who I played, who I went against, what team, you've got to have an attitude.
Every superstar in this league, if you don't go through adversity, if you try to duck and dodge it, it's gonna damper your team.
Some things don't just walk away. A dog got a broken leg, he ain't just going to walk away. He going to try to get himself together.
Coming from the inner city of Cleveland and growing up you never expected a street to be named after you or anything. It's a special honor.
I'm cool with whatever. I'll just keep eating my bread, sipping my soup and serving my time. But the chicken is going to lay some more eggs one day.
David Stern is the mastermind behind a lot of stuff, he controls a lot of stuff, he dictates a lot of stuff so he's going to make himself look good.