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.
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.
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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They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
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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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Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That’s that. That’s easy.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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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 grew up poor, but I didn’t have poor dreams
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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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The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.
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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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I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.
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Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing.
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If the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community.
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The attitude that I’m going to show everybody, I’m going to work hard to get better and better.
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