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

I'm not really worried about my numbers now as a 36-year-old. I'm not trying to be the first, experimental case of a 36-year-older trying to maintain his numbers, especially when I'm on a team like this. Can I do the same stuff I could do when I was Amare's age? Of course not. I'm not going to even try. However, I feel that I'm the baddest 36-year-old out there.

It's over now. He said what he had to say, I said what I had to say. Don't play with me. Seriously, don't play with 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.

I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.

I'm sort of like a specialist. I go in, do what I do and every four years, they get tired of me and I have to relocate myself.

Pluto is not a planet, but I am.