The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.

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My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.

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I'll be the judge of my own manliness.

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Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

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If you're going to have sex, use a condom.

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Why should I try to make you believe the things I believe in?

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You can love me or you can hate me.

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I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.

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I'm nothing more than a sports slave.

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I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.

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I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks.

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They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.

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At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns.

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I'm not one of those leeching sons of bitches. I want to earn everything I get.

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The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.

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For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

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I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

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Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?

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The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.

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I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it.

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I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

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A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.

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I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.

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I've been homeless. I've worked at 7-Eleven.

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I don't trust what this life has given me.

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With me, everything's right on the table.

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I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway.

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You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.

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I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.

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When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.

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I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.

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I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him.

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To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.

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I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.

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For five years I've felt like the best prostitute in a high-class whorehouse. But all the other girls get paid more than I do.

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Karl Malone's too high-class for a bum like me.

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I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.

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I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered.

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There is so much hypocrisy in sports.

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The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.

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My rookie year, I was very immature.

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I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive.

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I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

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They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.

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I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.

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I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.

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In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.

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Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

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I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.

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