If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have.
MAGIC JOHNSONI strive on pressure.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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I’ve always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I’d read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
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I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here.
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WE all have to play as a team to make the world a better place
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You can’t get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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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.
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You’re the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.
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So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He’s not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
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Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.
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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.
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I started in business over 25 years ago and have found a way to build on what I’ve learned through every partnership and opportunity.
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Most people who are healthy, and I’m healthy, can’t even live my life.
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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.’
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Standing on that platform, I said a silent prayer. I thanked God for giving me the strength and the opportunity to come back, to play basketball again, and to be part of that whole magnificent Olympic experience. It’s a memory I will always cherish.
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We cut him off and there was nowhere for him to go but out of bounds … It’s still the greatest move I’ve ever seen in basketball, the all-time greatest.
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