- 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.
- If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.
- 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'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
- The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.
- When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me understand my journey and what I was going to have to deal with day-to-day. 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.
- When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
- 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.
- Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.
- 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.
- All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
- 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.
- You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
- I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.
- I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.
- My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.
- I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.
- 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. Magic is a guy who would stand for nothing but winning and really prepared himself as well as he prepared his team. Earvin is the complete opposite.
- 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.'
- To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
- 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.
- Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.
- Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
- 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.
- 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.
- I'm gonna love my son until the end.
- I'm not cured, but the HIV is asleep deep in my body.
- 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.
- 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.
- When you think about the NASCAR brand, it resonates everywhere. They have the No. 1 sports brand.
- Young people want you to be real with them.
- I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.
- 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.
- When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
- I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.
- People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.
- People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.
- Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.
- I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
- 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.'
- Every kid, every minority kid can be so successful if they focus on their education.
- 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 love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.
- 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.
- I'm glad that Gov. Scott down in Florida accepted ObamaCare, because it will work.
- All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.
- 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.
- I don't care who is attacking my son. I still support him; I still love him.
- 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.
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