“Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide.”

“But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.”

“I don't care what people think. people are stupid.”

“I don't know what that gas is made of, but it can't smell any worse than Ernie Johnson 's gym bag.”

“I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.”

“I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.”

“I never would say a player stinks. Ever. I'll tell you their team stinks, and first of all, they know their team stinks. And the fans know their team stinks.”

“I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.”

“I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five.”

“If I weren't earning USD3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.”

“I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.”

“I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.”

“It ain't like we're curing cancer or anything, we're watching basketball.”

“Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.”

“My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.”

“My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.”

“One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.”

“Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.”

“Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.”

“Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.”

“The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.”

“The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.”

“These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.”

“This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.”

“We don't need refs, but I guess white guys need something to do.”

“You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.”