"And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!"

"I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em."

"No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won."

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."

"Whether you're throwing up or breaking up, you want your girlfriend right there! I don't trust women who don't go to their girlfriends."

"Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you."

"Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted."

"It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope."