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

I respect and admire what cops do.

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.

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.

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

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.

To think that everybody's like you is silly.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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'm never going to be one of those guys who gets on TV and yells and screams. That's not how I do my business. But I'm very aware of social responsibility.

I do not use words like 'liberal' or 'conservative.' You can ask me a question, and I will give you an answer. Those are words rich people on television use to divide and conquer.

If you get a chance to play with great players, that's half the battle.

Anybody who is racist, I just I think they are an idiot.

We're not all supposed to think alike.

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

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.

I might go my whole life stealing money. I got paid to play basketball, which is a scam. I get paid to watch basketball, which is a scam.

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

Bill Clinton is the greatest president of my lifetime. Period.

Racism is the greatest cancer of my lifetime.

I love women's college basketball, but I don't want it in the NBA.

The president of the United States should not be tweeting.

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.'

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

I have voted Democrat my entire life.

I got some cash from agents. I've talked to the NCAA. I think that should be legal. I want some money, too; everybody else is making money. I want to go on dates. I want to go buy myself some new suits. I want to buy myself some new sneakers, and I paid the agents back.

I like Chris Christie. I like Jeb Bush. I like those guys.

People like you as long as you agree with them. But that doesn't bother me.

One of my biggest regrets ever was not taking the time to go to South Africa to meet Nelson Mandela. That is a big regret of mine. I should have figured out a way.

Any professional athlete who gets on TV or radio and says he never played with a gay guy is a stone-freakin' idiot.

If I got a chance to play with another great player, I want to do that. I mean, the objective is to win.

I think it is important for me to speak out on social issues. Sometimes people will agree with me. Sometimes people will disagree with me. I don't take that personally.

You can't sit on the sidelines of life.

Roy Moore was an embarrassment.

I'm no role model.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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