No matter where they put people, no matter how they try to promote people, there aren't too many people in the game today that are on my level on and off the court.

I'm known as The Big Baryshnikov.

I'm going to be on a mission. I've handled my personal vendettas and handled them well. Every challenge you put in front of me, I've handled it, dismantled it - ate them, dropped them off in the bathroom and flushed them away.

I know how to turn the bad into good always.

I... am... the son of Jor-El!

Going from Army base to base as a kid taught me to be a man of all nations. I'd go to the Jewish people and say, 'Shalom, brother.' I go to the Muslim people and say, 'Salaam aleikum.'I go to the Chinese people and say, 'Nee hao mah,' which means, 'How you doin'?' I go to the Japanese people and say, 'Konnichiwa.' I go to San Antonio, Texas, and I get along with Mexicans. Then I go to Louisiana and hang with the Creoles. Moving around a lot made me a man of all people.

I think I'm the only player who looks at each and every center and says to myself, 'That's barbecued chicken down there.'