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.

Is sending the Harlem Globetrotters and Dennis Rodman to the DPRK strange? In a word, yes.

If I want to wear a dress, I'll wear a dress.

I'm fighting against becoming soft. That's the worst thing you can say to a basketball player.

I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

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.

Some people want to have controversy between the races.