If you’re a competitive person, that stays with you. You don’t stop. You always look over your shoulder.
MAGIC JOHNSONThe looks, the stares, the giggles . . . I wanted to show everybody that I could do better and also that I could read.
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I wouldn’t do the ‘Magic Hour’ again, but I would do TV again. The ‘Magic Hour’ is not me.
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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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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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You can’t get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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Young people want you to be real with them.
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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. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day.
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Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.
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Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.
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All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
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Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.
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I found out that a person named Elizabeth Frazier was living with AIDS at the time, and so I called her up, and she took a meeting with me.
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I’m from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers… it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.
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The worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor’s office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.
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It’s a burden trying to keep a secret. It’s hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That’s that. That’s easy.
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Assists is what Earvin is all about. That’s what my whole life has been, assisting others.
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You know I was a shy guy and people didn’t know that and still don’t know it today. I’m sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.
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Trust me. I get up 530-6 every morning. I’m in the gym. I run a couple miles. I lift weights, and then I’m at work until 8-9 o’clock at night.
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People don’t stop eating, and they don’t stop drinking coffee.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
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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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We are a company that lives and breathes a philosophy that’s centered on not only making sound business decisions but also personally and professionally finding ways to contribute to the well being of society.
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Life doesnt stop because something happens to you.
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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.
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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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There’s Michael [Jordan], then there’s the rest of us.
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