The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.
When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.
You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.
Don't let what other people think decide who you are.Collection: Basketball
Create havoc, create destruction.Collection: Destruction
If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.Collection: Three
I like to describe my life as a black hole with a little light out there.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: And Love
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.Collection: Basketball
I'm fighting against becoming soft. That's the worst thing you can say to a basketball player.Collection: Basketball
Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild.Collection: Running
The life I was leading was changing me into someone I didn't even know.Collection: Basketball
If you're going to have sex, use a condom.Collection: Basketball
If Lebron was playing in the late 80's and early 90's, just an average playerCollection: Player
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.Collection: Cutting
I don't want to be bulky and stiff.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Guy
When I hit bottom, I can attack the problem and get to where I want to be.Collection: Motivational
If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.Collection: Saws
I have one regret: I wish I was a better father.Collection: Regret
Shaq is not the man. He's the man because the NBA wants him to be the man, but before you can be the man, you've got to be the man.Collection: Men
Sometimes I'm not even satisfied when I got 6 points and 22 rebounds, because I'm always looking to do more.Collection: Motivational
I was confused as a kid. I was confused about my sexual identity.Collection: Basketball
Why it's been left to me to smooth things over, I don't know. Dennis Rodman, of all people. Keeping us safe is really not my job; it's the black guy's [Obama's] job. But I'll tell you this: If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.Collection: Jobs
I'm just saying I'm being myself, and people understand that.Collection: People
If the North wanted to hack anything in the world, anything in the world, really, they are going to go hack a movie? Really?!Collection: World
When they gave me that trophy, bro, I cried.Collection: Basketball
There's more impact if you burn somebody with your eyes, look straight into him and let him know with a look.Collection: Basketball
It's all about what they can get out of me.Collection: Motivational
Madonna wasn't an acrobat or anything, but the sex was good. I could tell she liked it.Collection: Basketball
Some people want to have controversy between the races.Collection: Basketball
I'm very particular about who I sleep with.Collection: Sleep
I'm going to come out and tell it like it is.Collection: Basketball
I only weigh 220, so I have to do something to keep from being tossed around by all the guys who weigh 250 and more. I train hard, but I don't try to get too big.Collection: Basketball
Larry Bird is overrated in a lot of areas. ... Why does he get so much publicity? Because he's white. You never hear about a black player being the greatest.Collection: Player
Maybe my life isn't great. We don't have all the answers. Look at it from my side.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Country
When I was 3, my father stopped coming home.Collection: Basketball
People are threatened by me. Rich white, rich blacks, it doesn't matter.Collection: Basketball
It's a different story because guess what, the kid is only 28 years old, 28. He's not his dad, not his grandpa. He's 28 years old.Collection: Dad
The Bulls talked to just about every person who ever met me.Collection: Basketball
This whole huddle thing really pisses me off.Collection: Basketball
My last year with the Spurs, I was late to practice one time.Collection: Basketball
Fifty percent of life in the NBA is sex. The other 50 percent is money.Collection: Basketball