I want to see the birth of my baby. Hopefully it's a boy. He can play for St. John's.

If I had to think of what I would do different in my whole career, it's that I never would have picked up a beer, bottle of vodka. That definitely changed my life. That is an Achilles' heel for me.

That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.

I went down and played with Magic Johnson at his all-star game in Atlanta. I remember Magic stopped the game and said, 'We need you here with us in L.A.

I want to be here, for my family. I want to be here for my baby. I want to see the birth of my baby.

If it wasn't for prison, I was in a bad way.

I'll say life is simpler.

I think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury.

I lost my way for a long time.

I could have been better. That's my goal now, to be better.

I always relate respectfully with blue-collar people.

Independance grows out of a child's faith that her source of security will always be there when she needs it.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do. Just be bold, be brave enough to be your true self. In short, be yourself, but always your better self.

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people.

Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.

There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

You get as much out of rock & roll artistically as you put into it. There's nobody who can teach you. You're on your own and that's what I find so fascinating about it.

Age - it's the one mountain you can't overcome.

I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it.

Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.