Reporters don't know me, because I don't talk to them; I just talk to the players.

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 wind and the sea and the storm were his domain and I wanted nothing to do with them any longer. I just wanted Cain.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

Less is only more where more is no good.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

The more you live, the better an actor you are, but maybe I'd like to do something else on the side. Something to pay the bills as well.

I think if you truly believe that something should be that way then you should push for that.

In the action of no-action (wu-wei), a cardinal aspect of the true creative process is set forth. In wu-wei, the mind is silenced and the work is allowed to express itself.

Ive never backed down from a fight and I relish a good debate.

One had rather have no opinion than a false one.

Vision motivates, sustains and dispels doubt.