To think that everybody's like you is silly.
I remember I'd be sleeping in the airport at 5 o'clock in the morning, traveling three hours, and playing a game that day. We never even chartered until my third year in the NBA.
It drives me crazy when guys making $30 million are complaining about playing basketball two days in a row.
Any professional athlete who gets on TV or radio and says he never played with a gay guy is a stone-freakin' idiot.
I'd rather have a gay guy who can play than a straight guy who can't play.
Every player has played with gay guys.
I really like ESPN. They do a great job.
You can't sit on the sidelines of life.
That's one of the problems with this country: they put you in a box. You're a Republican, you're a Democrat, you're conservative, you're liberal. And that's really unfair.
'War Eagle' is like 'I love you.'
I just grew up a poor black kid in Alabama with a single mom and two brothers.
I think Nick Saban is the greatest college football coach in history over there in Tuscaloosa.
It's interesting - the greatest country in the world, we shouldn't have people starving. We shouldn't have young people not getting something to eat.
I love sports because it takes me away from reality, and I tell people, 'No matter how bad your life is, if you are having problems at home, you are having problems at work, that's the beauty of sports.'
I was only 5'10'' until I was a senior in high school.
Kids are born into the situation they're born into, and obviously, they have no control over that. And we, as adults, it's up to us to take care of kids - that's part of your moral responsibility. I always tell people, 'There's two groups we should take care of - old people and young people.'
I'd love to see an openly gay player, a really, really good gay player come out.
I love women's college basketball, but I don't want it in the NBA.
White America don't get to dictate how me and Shaq talk to each other.
If you are born poor, whether white or black, you are going to be in a bad neighborhood and go to a bad school. If you are making three million dollars a year, a couple hundred thousand in taxes ain't gonna kill you.
