I'm still the baddest expletive in the world. Yeah, I'm getting older, but Kareem got older. Hakeem got older. I don't need Earthlings' respect. When it's all said and done, my name will be there and it will be mentioned ... unless you Earthlings try to erase it.

As a basketball fan, I get sick and tired of people talking about numbers. To me, the world is getting too materialistic.

They want to beat the Don Dadda. It means, 'The Man.'

Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's right for them and their family.

We're just going to come out and play. We know that we're supposed to win all the games, but if we don't, we just have to take the next game and focus on what we did wrong in the game before and just try to do better at the next game.

How can Benedict Arnold be reliable in what he says?

I'm not going to try to go out there and outdo him. I don't have to try to outdo him, I'm Shaq.