Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

The only time I'd played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team.

I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.

Karl Malone's too high-class for a bum like me.

I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.

If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.