“When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me understand my journey and what I was going to have to deal with day-to-day.”

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 found out that a person named Elizabeth Frazier was living with AIDS at the time, and so I called her up, and she took a meeting with me.

To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.

You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it’s all about family.

I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of ambrosia, the food of the gods.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores

History’s long arc is different than the today’s headlines.

Success isn’t overnight. It’s when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.

Every single choice we make is either going to enhance the spirit or drain it. Every day, we’re either giving ourselves power or taking it away.

Knowing that every single day is so filled with potential – you cannot wait for life to give you anything. You have no right to feel entitled. You are not entitled to anything.