“I started in business over 25 years ago and have found a way to build on what I’ve learned through every partnership and opportunity.”

I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here.

If you’re a competitive person, that stays with you. You don’t stop. You always look over your shoulder.

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have.

With businesses, you go to the same places because you like the service, you like the people and they take care of you. They greet you with a smile. That’s how people want to be treated, with respect. That’s what I tell my employees – customer service is very important.

I really want people to know that I’ve worked hard, very hard, to get to where I am today.. this didn’t just happen overnight.

Don’t give up! Be friends with people who help you work hard.

I’m from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers… it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.

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

As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.

Research your idea. See if there’s a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don’t know if there’s a need for it.

I wouldn’t do the ‘Magic Hour’ again, but I would do TV again. The ‘Magic Hour’ is not me.

I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.

When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.

The worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor’s office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.

We have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it and drive wedges into people. And this does not need to be done.

In me is working a power stronger than every other power. The life that is in me is a thousand times bigger than I am outside.

All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection.

I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men – the man he is and the man he wants to be.

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.

I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.

When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great a risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life.