I'm like President Bush. You may not like me, you may not respect me, but you voted me in.

Pat Riley is the best coach I've ever had...

I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.

My message to little kids who aspire to be anything they want to be is to listen to their parents.

I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up. Now that I'm an old, old veteran-age 29-I do things a lot differently. I don't go to the gentlemen's clubs anymore. I had to slow that down.

I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent from Newark who always dreamed about doing a movie. Someone said, 'Hey, here's $7 million, come in and do this genie movie.' What am I going to say, no? So I did it.

I don't have to make a point. I'm George Bush. I'm the president. I built that arena, so I don't have to make a point.