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

You know how I be. Last week Kobe couldn't do without me.

In the seven or eight years we were together, we were never together.

There was a kid that had five brothers and sisters, and the family was missing for like five days. I was watching TV, they [found each other] and now they're in San Antonio. So I bought them a little apartment in San Antonio. But I'm doing stuff like that all over.

Challenge me. Treat me like a game of checkers and play me. That's all I'm asking, just play me. Treat me like Sega and play me.

I'm still the Dun Dada of all big men.

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.