I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.

The older I get, the faster I was.

I don't know anything about Angola, but Angola's in trouble.

I don't care what people think. people are stupid.

We don't need refs, but I guess white guys need something to do.

I always laugh when people ask me about rebounding techniques. I've got a technique. It's called just go get the damn ball.

Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.

They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer.

There's only 5 real jobs in the world. Teacher, fireman, policeman, doctor and somebody who is in the armed service. If you don't have one of those 5 jobs, you shouldn't take your life that serious.

I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Our trials are tests our sorrows pave the way for a fuller life when we have earned it.

I've got a girl that I love so, hey Loddy Loddy Lo.

A psychic once read my palm and told me I was my mother's mother in a past life. Isn't that weird?

We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life.

But I am not discouraged. I do not despair for our country. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency, compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail.

And it's not a finger-pointing issue to me; I take as much responsibility as I can. It was more just me not really knowing what I wanted to do and how to get it done.

Economics and ethics are not mutually exclusive.

I don't go into a movie with preconceived notions of where I want things to go.

But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live.