A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'

Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.

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

On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.

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 met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.

I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here.