"I don't play for money. I play for the love of the game."

"I'm not going to change for anyone. I'm going to be myself."

"I'm a humanitarian. I'm a global citizen."

"If you put one hundred black people and one hundred white people in a neighborhood and have them grow up together from childhood, they're going to think of each other as one. They won't draw lines to …"

"Sometimes I get bored with basketball, like I know some fans do. And so I do things to make it more interesting for me, and for them."