If you’re a competitive person, that stays with you. You don’t stop. You always look over your shoulder.
MAGIC JOHNSONI 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.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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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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People don’t stop eating, and they don’t stop drinking coffee.
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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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Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.
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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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There’s winning and there’s losing, and in life you have to know they both will happen. But what’s never been acceptable to me is quitting.
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All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
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Life doesnt stop because something happens to you.
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If you come to me and say, ‘Hey look I’m a racist,’ or ‘I discriminate against blacks,’ or ‘I don’t like you because you’re African American.
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I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.
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I 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.
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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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The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.
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My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
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When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me understand my journey and what I was going to have to deal with day-to-day.
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