I never thought I was the best; I just thought I was one of the best.

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.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Sometimes the craziest laugh in the world is the only one that will save your sanity.

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback.

It's really special to be a part of something that's really changing lives.

I'm the ultimately responsible person in this organization. Other people can pass the buck to me, but I can't pass the buck to anyone else.

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

I wanted to make something that sounded very pure, organic, and personal. I wanted to make music that was timeless.

Independence has been key to the success and sustained growth of electronic music over the past 25 years.