I'm not apologizing to anybody for anything.

I'm not apologizing to anybody for anything.

It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.

As of right now, I have no desire. I've watched several games and played pickup ball thinking I'd have the feeling I'd like to get back, but I didn't have that feeling. I don't really miss the game.

Even if I would have left on a good note, there is still going to be people who don't like you, who don't like what you stand for. I can't worry about that.

I actually think some of the rappers can help our image, because the thing I'm concerned about is the NBA's image. I always want our image to be on the rise, and if the rappers can help young players get business-minded, then I'm all for it.

I didn't go in there and tell them I think you should move me, but I also understand the nature of this business.

I don't think I'll be playing again. I'm very content and happy, doing the types of things I haven't gotten to do, be a father.

I have to be a father first and a husband first.

I hope the business sense that artists like Jay-Z and Nelly are showing rubs off on the young players. I want somebody to stand up and say, Look, these kids got it going on. We want to be a part of them.

I meet a lot of people.

I'm still doing something I love to do.

I've been shooting the ball and running a little bit. It's just going out here now and forgetting that I've been out and try to get back in and make sure I know what's going on out there on the floor and that we're just not lost as a team.

I've never had a chance to go to the Finals, and I don't have a ring - and that would be the only thing that would get me to think about it.

If these are the last 34 games of my NBA career, I want them played as tough as I can.

If you're going to trade me, trade me. Whenever they are going to do, let them do it so I can situated.

When I look at our roster, I'm sure all of you have printed that I'm coming up on 35, and given my situation and my salary structure and all that, yeah, I have to wonder if this team is going to make moves and they haven't.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.

They say that life is tough enough. But I guess I like to make things difficult on myself, because I do that all the time. Every day and on purpose. That's because I believe in disrupting my comfort zone.

You can't kill rock and roll without a silver bullet because she's a werewolf.

Loads of my friends are lesbians, and it really annoys me that gay people aren't allowed to get married in most parts of America. I'd go on a march for gay rights any time.

It is better to be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a mighty ocean.

A dominant misconception among believers is that their atheist brethren are a slavering pack of hell-bound debauchees, gleefully wining and wenching their way through life while loudly professing their amorality.

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.

The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.

As an actor, I have tried to do new things, and that's why I have done few films.

I heard that after you throw away a 'New York Times,' it takes over a hundred years for the lies to biodegrade.

Tony Benn and I were very close, very close friends for 30, 40 years. We talked to each other a great deal, and we were great friends. And I was with him shortly before he died, talking about prospects of the world and prospects for peace. And I'm very sad that he's gone.

Together we are building a new Mexico.

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.

Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less philosophers.

Baking is like washing the results are equally temporary.

People treat me like family, 'cause I've always treated them like family.

I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work.

I remember Alicia Keys and Usher had released a song called 'My Boo,' and my music teacher got me to sing a duet with a friend of mine, and I remember being so nervous because I loved to sing, but I could never fathom singing by myself. And when I did that, I remember how proud I was of myself. I was 12.

I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.