Magic Johnson
When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.Collection: Alone
When you think about the NASCAR brand, it resonates everywhere. They have the No. 1 sports brand.Collection: Sports
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.Collection: Sports
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.Collection: Sports
No one plans to get sick or hurt - I certainly didn't - but most people will need medical care at some point in their lives.Collection: Medical
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.Collection: Work
My work ethic is from sports.Collection: Sports
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.Collection: Mom
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.Collection: Dreams
My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Diet
I thank Him every chance I get - on my knees praying.Collection: Chance
All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.Collection: Hope
I'm the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash.Collection: Chance
I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.Collection: Peace
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.Collection: Funny
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.Collection: Dreams
When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.
Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.
Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.
You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.
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 grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.
I'm not cured, but the HIV is asleep deep in my body.
I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.
All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.
When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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.
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.
The gay community has taken care of their issues and problems in terms of HIV/AIDS. They have done an incredible job. We as heterosexuals need to learn from the gay community because they have rallied together. They have sent a lot of information out there. They go get tested.
The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.
I'm the one who started redevelopment in South Los Angeles, not Jan Perry. I did it. I love Jan. She's a good person, and she did a wonderful job with what she did downtown, but in L.A., South L.A., I'm the one.
I try to hire people I don't have to motivate. But I do motivate the people working with and for me.
If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.
I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.
To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.
Sometimes friends move apart from each other for whatever reason.
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.
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 like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.
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.
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 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.
Young people want you to be real with them.
I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.
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.