You can’t get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
MAGIC JOHNSONThey said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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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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You know I was a shy guy and people didn’t know that and still don’t know it today. I’m sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.
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Don’t give up! Be friends with people who help you work hard.
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know.
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You don’t have to be Magic to be special. You’re already special, you’re you.
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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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Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.
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I found out that a person named Elizabeth Frazier was living with AIDS at the time, and so I called her up, and she took a meeting with me.
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Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players.
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I’m from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers… it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.
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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.
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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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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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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and dont let anyone tell you you cant. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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