“I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and dont let anyone tell you you cant. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.”

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.

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.

Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.

We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.

We unfortunately live in a corporate world where group decision making is made to avoid failure rather than to achieve success.

The reason we get overwhelmed is that we’re attached to a certain result or taht we want to achieve a certain result or that we to achieve a certain goal.

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.

I can’t stand being stagnant. Every day is a new opportunity to achieve something, even on a small scale.

Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)