For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball.
MAGIC JOHNSONFor me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball.
MAGIC JOHNSONI guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.
MAGIC JOHNSONAnything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.
MAGIC JOHNSONI want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day.
MAGIC JOHNSONI 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.
MAGIC JOHNSONI love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
MAGIC JOHNSONI 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.
MAGIC JOHNSONGod 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.
MAGIC JOHNSONI was able to see what I wanted to do, I could see the opportunity, even when others could not, and I stay committed to doing it and doing it well, no matter what.
MAGIC JOHNSONLife doesnt stop because something happens to you.
MAGIC JOHNSONI was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.
MAGIC JOHNSONWE all have to play as a team to make the world a better place
MAGIC JOHNSONYou either have to be great or you have to be bad to get a good pick.
MAGIC JOHNSONThey said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
MAGIC JOHNSONLarry, you only told me one lie. You said there will be another Larry Bird. Larry, there will never, ever be another Larry Bird.
MAGIC JOHNSONI’m a big believer in dreaming. If you don’t dream it, you can’t become it.
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