Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.

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

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

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.

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.

Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.

I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.

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, and we knew that all of the other leagues were at home and millions of people were watching. So it made it a special day to play on Christmas.

I never think that there's something I can't do, whether it's beating my opponent one on one or practicing another hour because something about my game is just not right.

If you come to me and say, 'Hey look I'm a racist,' or 'I discriminate against blacks,' or 'I don't like you because you're African American,' 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.

I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says 'No', then you have to knock on the next door.

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.

My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!'

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

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.

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.

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

Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.