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

If the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community.

I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.

I love business. I love helping urban communities grow. I love putting people to work of color. I love making sure - like right now the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.

I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.

Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.

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.