I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what's right for them.

I'm like tax. You're going to pay one way or the other.

How did Mike Bibby get on the team? Any Cub Scout with Boy Scouts can do Boy Scoutish things. When Bibby was in the Cub Scouts, he was a Cub Scout. When he was with Vancouver, nobody heard about him. Now that he's with Sacramento... he's on the team. I ain't going.

(The Hack-A-Shaq is) just a way of telling me that you can't stop me. Thank you. I appreciate it.

We want you all to be in shape and look as good as me. Because I will be walking naked on the beach.

Last time I looked at a [pay]check, I said to myself, 'Who the hell is FICA? And when I meet him, I'm going to punch him in the face. Oh my God, FICA is killing me.'

I'm more like a senior adviser so I don't like to come in here and try to take over. Just like your basic karate movie where the young guys come to the old guys with beards who have them do weird stuff to get to the other side. That's who I am, the old guy with a long beard.