"Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances"

"Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball"

"I think I have the skills. I'm a great judge of talent. I just know basketball"

"In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to"

"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 enjoy the last quarter of all basketball games"

"I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team"

"Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps"

"And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball"

"When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball"

"I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate"