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

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

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

I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.

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

If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them.

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

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

I'm no role model.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!

If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful.

If you are afraid of failure you don't deserve to be successful.

If you are afraid of failure you don't deserve to be successful!

They run like deer jump like deer and think like deer.

The older I get, the faster I was.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.

Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is.

Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.