Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.
MAGIC JOHNSONSo 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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I tell you, it’s funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.
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If you’re a competitive person, that stays with you. You don’t stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players.
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I’m at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
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Young people want you to be real with them.
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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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Life doesnt stop because something happens to you.
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A woman always remembers. Remember that.
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It all started when I got injured early in my second season. This turned out to be as difficult emotionally as physically.
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I grew up poor, but I didn’t have poor dreams
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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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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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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My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were – they still are – great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.
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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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