If you want someone to be your mentor, you better be ready to listen and be humbled.

I wouldn't do the 'Magic Hour' again, but I would do TV again. The 'Magic Hour' is not me. Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.

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

Don't give up! Be friends with people who help you work hard.

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

For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball. There's winning and there's losing, and in life you have to know they both will happen. But what's never been acceptable to me is quitting.

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.