I love New York City; I've got a gun.
We, as black people, we have a lot of crooks.
Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.
I really like ESPN. They do a great job.
We need the cops, especially in the black community.
I would love to be a general manager just for the challenge.
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.
I'm not going to get upset because somebody said something bad about me.
All the poor white people, all the poor black people, all the Hispanics, they're in the same boat. They've got no economic opportunities.
You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
We don't need refs, but I guess white guys need something to do.
What we, as black people, need to do is we need to worry about our education.
When I get on TV, I'm going to be talking about a silly basketball game, and I'm going to be having a lot of fun doing it. But I'm very aware of all the social stuff going on.
I have voted Democrat my entire life.
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.
I was only 5'10'' until I was a senior in high school.
Any time you criticize these young guys, they call you a hater. They never ask you if the criticism is fair or not.
The president of the United States should not be tweeting.
We never discuss race in this country until something bad happens.
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.
I remember I'd be sleeping in the airport at 5 o'clock in the morning, traveling three hours, and playing a game that day. We never even chartered until my third year in the NBA.
I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.
If I'm going to be straightforward, like I always try to be, I know guys are going to come back at me sometimes.
Golf is fun - until you hit somebody in the head.
Everybody wants to protect their own tribe, whether they are right or wrong.
As a fan, I don't want to have my team out of it by Day 1.
I don't stand for anti-Semitism. We can't have that.
I think people got more common sense than people give 'em credit for.
My idea of religion is we are supposed to bring people together. We are not supposed to judge other people.
It ain't like we're curing cancer or anything, we're watching basketball.
I accept the media for what they are. Most of them are really good people. Some of them are scumbags.
I'd love to see an openly gay player, a really, really good gay player come out.