“For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball.”

You’re the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.

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.

I consider it an honor and a privilege to give back however I can for the many sacrifices of these incredibly brave men and women.

Any time someone achieves success before they’ve earned it, it always comes back to haunt them.

Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

I just grew the hair on my back. Facial hair just wasn’t appealing to me. I liked it on my back, though.

Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.

I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.