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If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

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

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

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

Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.

I love New York City; I've got a gun.

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.

I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.

These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.

I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.

Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.

I'm no role model.

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.

The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.

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

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

I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.

I don't know what that gas is made of, but it can't smell any worse than Ernie Johnson 's gym bag.

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

I'm a mad dog whose only concern is winning.

Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.

We're not all supposed to think alike.

What I try to do is, I just want the fans to enjoy the game.

It ain't like we're curing cancer or anything, we're watching basketball.

I think you have an obligation to be honest.

I never would say a player stinks. Ever. I'll tell you their team stinks, and first of all, they know their team stinks. And the fans know their team stinks.

See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.

Well, all I can say is that people know I'm not saying anything out of malice.

One of the worst days of my life was telling Dick Ebersol I was going to TNT.

Look, I'm in the top 20 of players who ever lived.

I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.

But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.

One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.

When the cops are trying to arrest you, if you fight back, things go wrong.

We, as black people, we have a lot of crooks.

We only put the negative black people on television. We don't put the good, hard-working black people.

I can't believe anything I hear on television anymore.

We can't pick out certain incidentals that don't go our way and act like the cops are all bad... Do you know how bad some of these neighborhoods would be if it wasn't for the cops?

I live in Arizona. I think the Hispanic people are amazing. I think when people talk about illegal immigration... it does them a disservice.

Neither one of the parties is doing anything for poor people. They're both full of it. Black people have been voting Democratic their whole life, and they're still poor. And the Republicans don't do anything for poor people, either.

Poor people are too stupid to know they're just chess pieces in a game.

If I'm going to be straightforward, like I always try to be, I know guys are going to come back at me sometimes.

I'm not going to get upset because somebody said something bad about me.

Any time you criticize these young guys, they call you a hater. They never ask you if the criticism is fair or not.

I've only met LeBron casually. He's always been great to me. I think I've been great and cordial to him, but this notion that we have to be friends - we're never gonna be friends. And that's not a negative thing.

There's no such thing as a vegetarian.

Nobody doesn't like meat.

Fans have this perception that they can say anything to you because you are a celebrity.

Just because you watch 'Grey's Anatomy' doesn't mean you can do the operation.

When you steal from somebody, you are saying to them, 'I don't respect how hard you worked for your money.' When somebody steals from you, that's what they're saying.

LeBron is a great player and a great guy, but he's a drama queen.

I think it's a travesty that the NBA can't just tell these guys to play basketball two days in a row. It's just a joke to me. We flew commercial, and we were able to play back-to-back.

Roy Moore was an embarrassment.

We're the only ethnic group that says, 'Hey, if you go to jail, it gives you street cred.'

Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we, as black people, we're never going to be successful - not because of you white people but because of other black people. When you're black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people.

For some reason, we're brainwashed to think if you're not a thug or an idiot, you're not black enough. If you go to school, make good grades, speak intelligent, and don't break the law, you're not a good black person.

I'm not going to waste my time worrying about these Confederate statues. That's wasted energy.

I understand the power of symbols, and if I had anything on my house that seriously offended someone, I'd take it down if for no other reason than common courtesy.

The president of the United States should not be tweeting.

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