If you want someone to be your mentor, you better be ready to listen and be humbled.
MAGIC JOHNSONThe attitude that I’m going to show everybody, I’m going to work hard to get better and better.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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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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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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Assists is what Earvin is all about. That’s what my whole life has been, assisting others.
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With businesses, you go to the same places because you like the service, you like the people and they take care of you. They greet you with a smile. That’s how people want to be treated, with respect. That’s what I tell my employees – customer service is very important.
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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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The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.
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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.
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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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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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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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On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.
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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could’ve had.
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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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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man,
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Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.
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