I'm a season kind of guy - not the preseason but the regular season.

On paper, I think this is the best team I've been on.

I think I'm the only player who looks at each and every center and says to myself, 'That's barbecued chicken down there.'

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

If I don't get five [titles], I won't be happy with myself as a basketball player. I don't know how you guys will feel about me.

I was like, 'Huh? You want my jersey?'

Going from Army base to base as a kid taught me to be a man of all nations. I'd go to the Jewish people and say, 'Shalom, brother.' I go to the Muslim people and say, 'Salaam aleikum.'I go to the Chinese people and say, 'Nee hao mah,' which means, 'How you doin'?' I go to the Japanese people and say, 'Konnichiwa.' I go to San Antonio, Texas, and I get along with Mexicans. Then I go to Louisiana and hang with the Creoles. Moving around a lot made me a man of all people.