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. You also have to research your competition.

I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.

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

My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, 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.

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

Young people want you to be real with them.

The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.

Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

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.

I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.

The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.

I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

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. You also have to research your competition.

I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

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.

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

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. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.

A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'

All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.

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.

Every kid, every minority kid can be so successful if they focus on their education.

Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. 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.

God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.

I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.

I don't care who is attacking my son. I still support him; I still love him.

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

I got blessed from my mom. She's the personality; she's the one who smiled, so I took on part of her, and who also wanted to help and save the world. Then I took on part of my dad, who is tough.

I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.

I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.

I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.

I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.

I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.

I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.

I love putting people to work of color.

I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.

I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man; I am a vegetable man, anyway.

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.

I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.

I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.

I tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn't be a 6-foot, 9-inch point guard, and I proved them wrong. Then they told me I couldn't be a businessman and make money in urban America, and I proved them wrong. And they thought I couldn't win all these championships, and I proved them wrong there as well.

I thank Him every chance I get - on my knees praying.

I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'

I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.

I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.

I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.

I'm glad that Gov. Scott down in Florida accepted ObamaCare, because it will work.

I'm gonna love my son until the end.

I'm not cured, but the HIV is asleep deep in my body.

I'm the biggest music lover in the world. I mean, I have seen everybody. I went on tour with Michael Jackson and the Jacksons four or five times.