I'm conservative with my money. I'm the one who's got a family and I can't be playing basketball forever, so when I retire, I want to live on what I've made.

I'll always be Number 1 to myself.

I never thought I'd lead the NBA in rebounding, but I got a lot of help from my team-mates - they did a lot of missing.

I was on the playground all night. I ain't never go to parties or nothing. I'd get out of school at 3 and be out there playing until one in the morning with one streetlight. For real.

I'm never gonna try it, because you got to pay a lot for cocaine, and that's not the way I want to spend my money.

To be a great offensive rebounder, you have to think like a defensive rebounder and battle for position while also being in the flow of your offense. And then it's just being determined.

I came up in a small town ghetto and I never did think I'd be a celebrity or famous athlete, I was just loving to play the game of basketball. And I worked hard at everything I did.

The only reason people are saying I'm the number-one player is because I'm with the number-one team.

When I was 15, they changed the playground rules because I was dominating everything and blocking everything that came my way.

When I retire, I wanna be able to just lay back. Only way to make it happen is to be investing my money, not spending it.

I don't talk to reporters, because they're gonna write what they want to write, so let 'em write what they want to write.

I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive.

When our time is up we can only take with us what we have learned and experienced in our development in creating for ourselves and others."By helping others we help ourselves

I could never hate you, even if I wanted to.

Never underestimate a clown with a book.

Don't worry, and don't kick yourself forever. Just take the opportunities when they come.

Leader, bandits at 2 o'clock! Roger; it's only 1:30 now-what'll I do 'til then?

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Without giving specific names, most of the significant American banks, the larger banks, are bankrupt, totally bankrupt.

The audience is astonishingly friendly and tolerant of even the slightest dab, but is limited in its willingness to look either deeply or at length.

The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.