I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. Parents have to take better control.

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

I like to help poor people who got no chance. If rich people don't, who will? Not other poor people, that's for sure.

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

I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man. (on his retirement from basketball)

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

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.