“The important thing is this Just because I’m doing well doesn’t mean that they’re going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.”

It’s almost like we have ESPN.

I respect that. I can respect you more by doing that. But don’t smile in my face, shake my hand, and then you don’t really respect me, or want me to be around, or come to your games as the owner of the Clippers.

HIV changed my life, but it doesn’t keep me from living.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.

Trust me. I get up 530-6 every morning. I’m in the gym. I run a couple miles. I lift weights, and then I’m at work until 8-9 o’clock at night.

The attitude that I’m going to show everybody, I’m going to work hard to get better and better.

In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.

My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man,

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.

You either have to be great or you have to be bad to get a good pick.

Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could’ve had.

The looks, the stares, the giggles . . . I wanted to show everybody that I could do better and also that I could read.

Standing on that platform, I said a silent prayer. I thanked God for giving me the strength and the opportunity to come back, to play basketball again, and to be part of that whole magnificent Olympic experience. It’s a memory I will always cherish.

I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.

A woman always remembers. Remember that.

Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.

The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.

Announcers don’t do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it.

If I were the commissioner of all sports media I would issue an immediate ban on three-person announcing teams on telecasts of live sporting events. In almost all cases three is one voice too many.

If somebody had started on a remake of French Kiss before I announced my own film, I would have dropped my subject. If someone else starts after me, what am I to do?

Their parents were told: “You will never see them again.

Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?

I have made great strides in my craft. After months of auditioning, I am very proud to announce that I am a member of the Actors Studio.