I`m nothing more than a sports slave.

You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can`t see how deep it is.

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

I`ll be the judge of my own manliness.

I learned a lot I wouldn`t have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.

With me, everything`s right on the table.

If I want to wear a dress, I`ll wear a dress.

I`m hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.

I don`t trust what this life has given me.

I`ve been homeless. I`ve worked at 7-Eleven.

The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don`t become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren`t able to mold and shape and make their puppet.

I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in `95.

For years the league has thought I`ve been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

At least 50 times. I`ve jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I`ve been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns.

Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.

I`ve got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.

Karl Malone`s too high-class for a bum like me.

A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn`t want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.

I wear women`s leggings under my clothes, but no lingerie.

I don`t feel anything when I watch Shaquille O`Neal play. I don`t feel anything coming off him.

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

I couldn`t care less if the guy I`m guarding has HIV. I`m going to slam him anyway.

There is so much hypocrisy in sports.

I can`t begin to describe the amount of crap I`ve taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.

As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want.

I`m not one of those leeching sons of bitches. I want to earn everything I get.

The NBA`s chosen ones think I`m setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously.

I`m trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive.

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you`re looking at him. Elvis isn`t dead; he just changed color.

I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game.

The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.

I`m starting to see players copy what I do. I`m flattered.

My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.

Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.

Why should I try to make you believe the things I believe in?

If you have a problem with my answer that`s your problem, not my problem.

I can score 20 points if I want to, but that`s not my desire.

I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

There`s one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.

The doors fly open when you`re a professional athlete.

To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.

I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks.

The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you`re the property of that team for 24 hours a day.

I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.

I didn`t want to be known as Madonna`s playboy, her boy toy.

Fifty percent of life in the NBA is sex. The other 50 percent is money.

Wherever there`s money, there`s drugs, so to say drugs don`t exist in the NBA would be stupid.

I`m the basketball version of a gravedigger.

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.

If you`re going to have sex, use a condom.

You can love me or you can hate me.

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

I don`t fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I`ve been punished financially for it.

They didn`t have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.

For five years I`ve felt like the best prostitute in a high-class whorehouse. But all the other girls get paid more than I do.

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.

Everybody`s talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?

I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.

Black culture is something I don`t relate to much at all.

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is ten, or something.