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.

Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.

I take it personal when people don't double me. It's against my religion not to double me. It upsets me. It makes me think they're saying to themselves I don't have it anymore.

I am a tropical black man.

Write this: Since my boy is the coach, I'm going to try out for the Dolphins next year. Tight end.

Being the best right now doesn't do anything for my feathers.