We're the only ethnic group that says, 'Hey, if you go to jail, it gives you street cred.'

We're not all supposed to think alike.

Anybody who is racist, I just I think they are an idiot.

If you get a chance to play with great players, that's half the battle.

I do not use words like 'liberal' or 'conservative.' You can ask me a question, and I will give you an answer. Those are words rich people on television use to divide and conquer.

I'm never going to be one of those guys who gets on TV and yells and screams. That's not how I do my business. But I'm very aware of social responsibility.

It's interesting - the greatest country in the world, we shouldn't have people starving. We shouldn't have young people not getting something to eat.

If you are born poor, whether white or black, you are going to be in a bad neighborhood and go to a bad school. If you are making three million dollars a year, a couple hundred thousand in taxes ain't gonna kill you.

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

I understand the power of symbols, and if I had anything on my house that seriously offended someone, I'd take it down if for no other reason than common courtesy.

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

Well, all I can say is that people know I'm not saying anything out of malice.

I can't believe anything I hear on television anymore.

I've only met LeBron casually. He's always been great to me. I think I've been great and cordial to him, but this notion that we have to be friends - we're never gonna be friends. And that's not a negative thing.

To think that everybody's like you is silly.

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.

When the cops are trying to arrest you, if you fight back, things go wrong.

Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.

That's one of the problems with this country: they put you in a box. You're a Republican, you're a Democrat, you're conservative, you're liberal. And that's really unfair.

I respect and admire what cops do.

Poor people are too stupid to know they're just chess pieces in a game.

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.

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

Golf is fun - until you hit somebody in the head.