“I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.”

I tell you, it’s funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

You’re the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.

No I changed my mind. I’ll go up on the other side.’ He’s just incredible.

On his telepathic understanding with James Worthy- It’s almost like we have ESPN.

People don’t stop eating, and they don’t stop drinking coffee.

I’m at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.

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.

I’ve always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I’d read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.

They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.

The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That’s that. That’s easy.

I grew up poor, but I didn’t have poor dreams

Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing.

Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.

Once Michael gets up there he says, ‘Well, maybe I’ll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back.’ Then all of a sudden, he says, ‘Well, maybe I’ll 360.

So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He’s not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.

I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.

I’m a big believer in dreaming. If you don’t dream it, you can’t become it.

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.

The thing I love about Donald, it’s time this country is run by a businessman and not people with their hands out, and Donald doesn’t have his hands out.

My dad was a terrible businessman.

In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.

The small businessman is smart; he realizes there’s no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.

The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.