“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.”

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.

Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.

I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That’s the key I may be up early, but I’m in bed early too.

Everybody on a championship team doesn’t get publicity, but everyone can say he’s a champion.

I never think that there’s something I can’t do, whether it’s beating my opponent one on one or practicing another hour because something about my game is just not right.

I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I’m talking about just for the league itself.

You don’t have to be Magic to be special. You’re already special, you’re you.

Life doesnt stop because something happens to you.

When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

It’s a burden trying to keep a secret. It’s hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.

You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

When a car’s ahead of you, as long as you can see it, you get a tow, just like the draft in NASCAR.

Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

I think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don’t ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.