Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.
MAGIC JOHNSONTalent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.
MAGIC JOHNSONThe audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.
MAGIC JOHNSONMy 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.
MAGIC JOHNSONJust celebrate the life you had, not the life you could’ve had.
MAGIC JOHNSONThe attitude that I’m going to show everybody, I’m going to work hard to get better and better.
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 JOHNSONEven as a fierce competitor I try to smile.
MAGIC JOHNSONIn life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.
MAGIC JOHNSONI 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.
MAGIC JOHNSONMy 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,
MAGIC JOHNSONIf 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.
MAGIC JOHNSONA lot of black guys always ask me, ‘Did Larry Bird really play that good?’ I said, ‘Larry Bird is so good it’s frightening.’
MAGIC JOHNSONI love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
MAGIC JOHNSONIf you want to be successful, you have to be willing to use every connection you’ve got.
MAGIC JOHNSONI’m a big believer in dreaming. If you don’t dream it, you can’t become it.
MAGIC JOHNSONI am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That’s the key I may be up early, but I’m in bed early too.
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