There is no answer to the Pythagorean theorem. Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I got 40 points, 10 rebounds and then we're planning for the parade.

I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

Can I go one day without somebody saying something negative about me?

Talk to the guys that ain't doing nothing, don't talk to me. I just want eight guys out there with me who want to play.

It's hard to get up for a good high-school team like the Chicago Bulls.

I'm still here. I'm a force to be reckoned with... you have to come take my spot, and not through Twitter and not through the media, come take my spot. I'm ready to go. As big men in the league, there are two who have done something special during this millennium. I'm one and Tim Duncan is the other. Anyone else has to come upstairs and see the Shogun. I'm still the Shogun.