I’m at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
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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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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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’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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Young people want you to be real with them.
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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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I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young [sons] become men.
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We cut him off and there was nowhere for him to go but out of bounds … It’s still the greatest move I’ve ever seen in basketball, the all-time greatest.
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To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
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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 want to be successful, you have to be willing to use every connection you’ve got.
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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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Don’t give up! Be friends with people who help you work hard.
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I never think that there’s something I can’t do, whether it’s beating my opponent one on one or practicing another hour because something about my game is just not right.
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Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.
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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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