“And we knew that all of the other leagues were at home and millions of people were watching. So it made it a special day to play on Christmas.”

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.

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.

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

I eat everything I want on Christmas day.

I really don’t watch what I eat. It’s not like you have #‎ Christmas every day!

Many people celebrate Christmas as a secular holiday for the most part than a Christian holiday. Obviously, many, many people celebrate it as a Christian holiday. But then there’s even more people or there’s additional people who celebrate it as a secular holiday as well.

God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God’s work to save the world.

Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn’t imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I’m gone for six days it feels like too much

When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. .

I’m a punk rocker. I don’t do Christian.