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

The Republicans always do a good job of dividing and conquering. They do a really good job of making black folks, poor white folks, and Hispanics not like each other.

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

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 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.

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.

My perspective is never gonna change on that... We've got to do a much better job to take care of poor people, because you cannot put all the poor people in bad neighborhoods, send them to bad schools, and say, 'Good luck in life.' That's just not right.

'War Eagle' is like 'I love you.'

Nobody doesn't like meat.

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

The only people who distrust the cops are crooks. They're not out there just harassing innocent people. Maybe sometimes they do. But there's no inherent situation where cops are deliberately out there harassing people.

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

I'm willing to sit down with anybody and have constructive criticism.

What bothers me the most are the Republicans and the Democrats: they act like little kids. They are lying to real people out here trying to get through life.

I wish the American public wasn't so stupid if they realized that half the people on television make a living just to insult the other party.

If you're a poor white person and your life sucks, it's easy for you to blame Hispanics cos you don't want to look in the mirror and say, 'I'm the reason my life sucks.' The Republicans do a good job exploiting that.

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.

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

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

Golf is fun - until you hit somebody in the head.

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

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.

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.