I told Leonard, in the immortal words of Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 2, 'I'm going on vacation. If I tell you where I'm going, then it won't be a vacation.'

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

That's what I do. I get in and get under people's skin and all that stuff. But you will remember me - and that's all that matters.

You always have to take care of the sisters first, so my dad would buy Barbies and stuff and I wouldn't get anything. So I don't want any other kid to feel like that.

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.

Since I suffered the injury on company time, why shouldn't I also be able to get surgery and do recovery on company time?

I don't take anything personal. I just have a certain file in my head, so Earthlings must be careful with what they say.