I'm not a high jumper, but you don't see guys intimidating me or posting me up.
When you play 40 minutes a game, you're going to average a lot of rebounds.
You can't say, 'You're a scorer, you score. You rebound, you rebound.' Basketball is more than that. Basketball is knowing the next step, knowing the next play, knowing how to make things happen.
There's always someone who wants to make you look bad.
David Stern is the mastermind behind a lot of stuff, he controls a lot of stuff, he dictates a lot of stuff so he's going to make himself look good.
I shoot five or six times, go out and play defense and make sure everything is clicking. I'm like a transmission in a car. You can't see me, but I make the car go.
I'm not a troublemaker. People say, 'You got into a lot of incidents.' Yeah, but it was on the basketball floor.
I'm like a toll booth. Sooner or later, you have to come to me.
I want to do what's best for the team, always.
I'm all about having a good time and respecting my teammates.
I don't have any specialties. Anything I cook, I just make it special.
When I first got into this league, I knew a lot. But I made myself better by listening and working hard.
I don't just hop in the car. I have destinations. I drive to relax. I'll be gone for two weeks, hit four or five major cities. I don't like being nowhere for more than two or three days. I just go. I don't have a schedule.
One of the things about the NBA is anybody could be traded.
Chicago was a good place for me. Maybe New York will be better.
I was in New York, I went to a Yankees game and I called and said, 'Can I get tickets to the Knicks game?' They said, 'We can't get you tickets no more to the Knicks game.'... They had tickets, but they said they didn't have no tickets for me.
You can't play Around the World in the NBA, you've gotta go to the basket.
I just want to let the fans know I don't hate the Knicks. I love the Knicks.
If you have a horse that isn't winning any races, sooner or later you have to get a new jockey.
My thing is, when Barkley played basketball, he didn't practice, he wasn't a leader, he wasn't this or that, he just had natural talent so he got chosen to the Dream Team, All Star team because he had the talent and he was the franchise player on the team.
