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.

I'm getting older. I'm getting sexier. I'm getting meaner. I can still do what I do.

I'm more like a senior adviser so I don't like to come in here and try to take over. Just like your basic karate movie where the young guys come to the old guys with beards who have them do weird stuff to get to the other side. That's who I am, the old guy with a long beard.

I knew I was going to make one. I wanted to make two, but the first one rattled in and rattled right out.

You know what's crazy about Yao? He speaks perfect English. A lot of people don't know that. Perfect English. When I was over there, I called him. He's like, 'Whassup big fella?' Perfect English!

Most ferocious was Kobe. Fiercest, most competitive, it was Kobe. D Wade is second after that.

You have to foul me to stop me, period.