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

I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.

For a long time, I'd work until 10 or 11. When I work, I'm on. I'm 'Magic.' I love it, but it takes a lot out of me.

When I grew up, my family, we sat down, all of us to watch 'Good Times,' 'Sanford and Son,' all those shows that were out at that time.

People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.

I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.

My work ethic is from sports.

I try to hire people I don't have to motivate. But I do motivate the people working with and for me.

I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.

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

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom. Just like right now with the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.

It all started when I got injured early in my second season. This turned out to be as difficult emotionally as physically.

I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.

It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

The score never interested me, only the game.

I've been things and seen places.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

I'm single because I was born that way.

I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.

I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.