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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More Magic Johnson Quotes
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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The looks, the stares, the giggles . . . I wanted to show everybody that I could do better and also that I could read.
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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could’ve had.
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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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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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I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I’m talking about just for the league itself.
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I’m a big believer in dreaming. If you don’t dream it, you can’t become it.
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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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You either have to be great or you have to be bad to get a good pick.
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I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says ‘No’, then you have to knock on the next door.
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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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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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Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.
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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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If you hate to lose, you do whatever you need to do to make sure you’re business is successful.
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