I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, ‘Yeah. I’m going to retire.’ They said, ‘Well, we’ll give you $9 million.’ And I said, ‘You got a pen on you?’
Poor white people and poor black people just don’t know how much they have in common. Rich people don’t give a damn about either group.
I came to the realization a couple months ago that I am fat. If you get tired from walking – and that’s all that golf is – then you are officially fat.
If you can’t slam with the best, then jam with the rest.
It ain’t like we’re curing cancer or anything, we’re watching basketball.
They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer.
They don’t let many black people in the governor’s mansion in Alabama, unless they’re cleaning.
On his homesickness during the Barcelona Olympics -I miss America. I miss crime and murder. I miss Philadelphia. There hasn’t been a brutal stabbing or anything here the last 24 hours. I’ve missed it.
I don’t how anybody taller than 6-4 can sit in those seats. And the airline executives don’t give a damn ’cause they never walk back there in the first place. I don’t fly first class because I have a lot of money. I do it because I need the room.
You know what’s amazing to me? America. There have been so many people who have stepped up, and I’m just proud to be an American. Yeah, there were some mistakes made, but I don’t play the blame game. Let’s move forward and rebuild New Orleans.
I was a Republican until they lost their minds.
I don’t know anything about Angola, but Angola’s in trouble.
People always say turn the other cheek. If you turn the other cheek, I’m gonna hit you in the other cheek too.
I don’t worry about playing basketball; that comes natural. I just want to have fun. David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Michael Jordanthis is like spring break in the ghetto.
I just wish all these young black kids would realize how significant it is to stop acting a fool out there, killing each other, not getting their education. You know, people have died to put us in a situation to be successful.
I’d rather have a gay guy who can play than a straight guy who can’t play.
Thank God for Jerry Springer’s show. I thought only black folks were that screwed up until I watched Jerry Springer.
I know a lot of people did a lot of heavy lifting to make me successful and I do everything in my power not to screw it up.
America is divided by economics, and we as Americans, we’ve got to do a better job of supporting poor people.
I’m so sick and tired of people in the media telling us that because of the war, sports aren’t important. Fans need sports. We’d have only crime and war to watch on TV if not for sports.
I don’t have time to put up with the politics. Who’s a Democrat? Who’s a Republican? Who’s liberal? Who’s conservative? Man, can my daughter just go to a school and not get killed? Can these people get a good job? That’s what I’m concerned about.