Disgraced LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling is asking for forgiveness for the bigoted remarks that led to his lifetime ban from the NBA.

Sterling's remarks came during an exclusive interview with Anderson Cooper on CNN. The interview will air Monday night but the network has released excerpts in anticipation of the broadcast.

The NY Post details some of the headline-making quotes teased out by CNN:

“If I said anything wrong, I’m sorry,’’ Sterling told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in an interviewing airing Monday night. “I’m a good [NBA] member who made a mistake, and I’m apologizing and I’m asking for forgiveness.

“Am I entitled to one mistake, am I, after 35 years?’’ Sterling, 80, asked said during the interview at his Beverly Hills home — his first since the scandal broke.

“I mean, I love my league, I love my partners. Am I entitled to one mistake? It’s a terrible mistake, and I’ll never do it again.

“When I listen to that tape, I don’t even know how I can say words like that . . . I don’t know why the girl had me say those things,” insisted the billionaire real-estate investor, who was caught on tape telling his then-gal pal, V. Stiviano, not to bring black people — including hoops great Magic Johnson — to Clippers games.

Cooper then pressed Sterling: “You’re saying you were set up?” “Well, yes, I was baited,” Sterling said. “I mean, that’s not the way I talk . . . I don’t talk about people.”

He said he didn’t know who leaked the tape.

“I thought she liked me and really cared for me. I guess being 51 years older than her, I was deluding myself,” he said.

“I just wish I could ask her why — and if she was just setting me up.

“I’m not a racist. I made a terrible, terrible mistake. And I’m here with you today to apologize and to ask for forgiveness for all the people that I’ve hurt.”