“Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players.”

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.

Because if you’re going to lose, lose. I’m serious.

There’s Michael [Jordan], then there’s the rest of us.

Christmas Day was special because everybody is watching at home. That’s what I loved about Christmas Day because it shined the spotlight on the Lakers, on our team.

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.

The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.

I’m just going to be the best version of me that I could possibly be and be as funny as I possibly can.

It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.

Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.

Problems are chances for us to do our best.

In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.

Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.

I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.