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.
MAGIC JOHNSONI 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.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.
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To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
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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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For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball.
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On his telepathic understanding with James Worthy- It’s almost like we have ESPN.
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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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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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I was able to see what I wanted to do, I could see the opportunity, even when others could not, and I stay committed to doing it and doing it well, no matter what.
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God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
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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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I remember like it was yesterday. He had worked all those years to own that house and he cried. He was so excited and so happy and I want to see other people get that feeling, too.
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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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Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.
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You also have to research your competition.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
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