I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent from Newark who always dreamed about doing a movie. Someone said, 'Hey, here's $7 million, come in and do this genie movie.' What am I going to say, no? So I did it.

My message to little kids who aspire to be anything they want to be is to listen to their parents.

Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.

I had an awful first quarter but I picked it up. To all you single guys out there, it's not how you start the date, it's how you finish it sir. A lot of people can, you know, start the date with flowers and candy, but if you don't finish the date - you know what I mean?

I play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn't do that. I am the only one that has to do that.

Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.

Before I became the 'Great Test of the West," I was the 'Beast of the East.'