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MAGIC JOHNSONJust celebrate the life you had, not the life you could’ve had.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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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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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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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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I grew up poor, but I didn’t have poor dreams
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I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers’ duel.
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Everybody on a championship team doesn’t get publicity, but everyone can say he’s a champion.
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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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And we knew that all of the other leagues were at home and millions of people were watching. So it made it a special day to play on Christmas.
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We are also a company that understands community.
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The 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 wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.
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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.
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When I’m under the gun and I’ve got pressure on me, I don’t panic. I look for the right solution, and then I go for it.
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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.
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Jealousy is invariably a symptom. Just like right now with the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.
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For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball.
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I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
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I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says ‘No’, then you have to knock on the next door.
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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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Larry, you only told me one lie. You said there will be another Larry Bird. Larry, there will never, ever be another Larry Bird.
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The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.
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Once Michael gets up there he says, ‘Well, maybe I’ll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back.’ Then all of a sudden, he says, ‘Well, maybe I’ll 360.
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I strive on pressure.
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If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to use every connection you’ve got.
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Because if you’re going to lose, lose. I’m serious.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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