I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.

Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled.

Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me in the end.

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

I'm the baddest among the bad guys.

As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.