Some of my favorite songs--and I don't know if this is the right terminology--are white-boy classics.

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 made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.

I'm the first player in history that doesn't want to play defense and still gets in foul trouble.

Nietzsche was so intelligent and advanced. And that's how I am. I'm the black, basketball-playing Nietzsche.

I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me. And the one guy who didn't vote for me, thank you, too.

Kobe always tried to be a hero. But you know, as the saying goes, a hero ain't nothing but a sandwich.