The life I was leading was changing me into someone I didn't even know.

I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.

The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.

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

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

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.

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.