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Fifty percent of life in the NBA is sex. The other 50 percent is money.
People are threatened by me. Rich white, rich blacks, it doesn't matter.
If you have a problem with my answer that's your problem, not my problem.
I like to describe my life as a black hole with a little light out there.
When I hit bottom, I can attack the problem and get to where I want to be.
If Lebron was playing in the late 80's and early 90's, just an average player
Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.
Maybe my life isn't great. We don't have all the answers. Look at it from my side.
I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.
I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway.
In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.
I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.
The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.
Madonna wasn't an acrobat or anything, but the sex was good. I could tell she liked it.
Is sending the Harlem Globetrotters and Dennis Rodman to the DPRK strange? In a word, yes.
I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game.
To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.
I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it.
This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.
They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.
I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.
I thought it was pathetic: The league just decided that Grant Hill would go right to the top.
I'm fighting against becoming soft. That's the worst thing you can say to a basketball player.
I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.
Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid.
If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.
I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him.
They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.
He loves basketball. And I said Obama loves basketball. Let's start there, all right. Start there.
I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.
When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.
Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.
Sometimes I'm not even satisfied when I got 6 points and 22 rebounds, because I'm always looking to do more.
There's more impact if you burn somebody with your eyes, look straight into him and let him know with a look.
I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.
I went from five foot eleven to six foot eight, and the more ball I played, the more I caught on to the game.
For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.
A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.
These people didn't know anything about black people, so the only thing they could imagine was the worst thing.
Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.
You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.
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.
I'm calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea, or as I call him, 'Kim,' to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose.
I want to be anywhere in the world that I'm needed. I want to spread a message of peace and love throughout the world.
I say I'm Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin all wrapped up into one. If I die early ... I'll be just like those guys.
If the North wanted to hack anything in the world, anything in the world, really, they are going to go hack a movie? Really?!
For five years I've felt like the best prostitute in a high-class whorehouse. But all the other girls get paid more than I do.
The only time I'd played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team.
What I saw in that country, I saw in that country and I saw people respect him and his family and that's what I mean about that.
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.