I’ve been patient with everything – management, coaches, players – but I want to play. I think I took my time eating my soup, the soup is gone. Now it’s time for the main course. The appetizers, throw them out the window.

I’ve got too much heart and pride for the game.

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.

Just because there’s glass on the road don’t mean there’s been an accident.

I’m not a high jumper, but you don’t see guys intimidating me or posting me up.

Coming from the inner city of Cleveland and growing up you never expected a street to be named after you or anything. It’s a special honor.

A lot of guys do the pretty things. Dunking, tattoos, earrings, sagging jeans. That’s the league now. They have athletic ability, but they don’t know the game.

I don’t play mind games.

I want to do what’s best for the team, always.

Knicks fans are the smartest in the world and they know you can’t just play one end of the court.

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.

They told me many times throughout my career to bite my tongue and I told them my tongue’s been bleeding since I was born.

If you have a horse that isn’t winning any races, sooner or later you have to get a new jockey.

Every headline in the paper, I don’t write them. My story‘s inside the paper, not the headline.

One guy can’t make a team better.

Every superstar in this league, if you don’t go through adversity, if you try to duck and dodge it, it’s gonna damper your team.

In Chicago, they wanted Michael to do his thing and me to be just rebound. I’m more than a rebounder.

Do me a favor and don’t make me out to be no hero.

When you walk out here with the Bobcats logo, stand for something. Not wearing your hat to the back, sagging jeans. Be a professional, that’s how I present myself to them.

Chicago was a good place for me. Maybe New York will be better.

I just don’t like when you preach one thing and do something else.

I’m just a piece of the pie, a slice of the pound cake.

I love New York, gave my whole heart.

A shirt look good when you iron it but if you iron too much, it gonna get burned.

You can’t throw a hook on the side of the road and expect to catch a fish in the grass.

The guys who beat me didn’t get 1,000 rebounds. I did. It’s not my fault the other guys didn’t play as many games.

I’m a veteran. I understand the game. I can control a game. I understand systems. I can play several positions.

I guess I’m going to have to go Google myself and see why people think I shouldn’t be coaching.

Your offense might not be great every game, but defense is just about working hard and outworking your opponents.

People hate to go out to eat with me because they know I’m going to send it back. Like, I’m trying to order simple. But don’t blame me if you bring out the wrong stuff.

I’m always willing to work stuff out, because I’m that type of guy.

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.

If it ain’t broke, don’t break it.

It’s been so overwhelming, the people in New York. That’s why they call New York, New York – because they care about things and know real situations. My love for the fans, it’s mouth-dropping.

Why complain to the NBA and to the officials all the time, just like Tyrone Hill, always complaining about me on the court?