If you want someone to be your mentor, you better be ready to listen and be humbled.
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.
I strive on pressure.
I was able to see what I wanted to do, I could see the opportunity, even when others could not, and I stay committed to doing it and doing it well, no matter what.
Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.
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.
I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
If you hate to lose, you do whatever you need to do to make sure you're business is successful.
Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.
I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here.
To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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.
Because if you're going to lose, lose. I'm serious.
Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing.
A woman always remembers. Remember that.
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.
Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.
If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.
The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.
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.
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.
It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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.
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