Alvin's the coach. We must be the Clippers. And I must be Olowokandi. Nooooo!

I've been the type of person [and] the type of athlete, I don't like to be given anything. I like to earn.

David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah. So I do stuff that my parents allow me to do.

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

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 came here with the perfect chemist's perception. The formula they had was perfect and any added ingredient could make it go bad or worse.

Enunciation, diction, all that stuff. None of that is in my personality.