Magic Johnson on aids
Magic Johnson112 quotes“You can’t get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.”
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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.
Magic JohnsonMagic Johnson So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He’s not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
Magic JohnsonMagic Johnson I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.
Magic JohnsonMagic Johnson 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.
Magic JohnsonMagic Johnson To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
Magic JohnsonMagic Johnson Because if you’re going to lose, lose. I’m serious.
Magic JohnsonMagic Johnson There’s Michael [Jordan], then there’s the rest of us.
Magic JohnsonMagic Johnson Christmas Day was special because everybody is watching at home. That’s what I loved about Christmas Day because it shined the spotlight on the Lakers, on our team.
Magic JohnsonMagic Johnson It’s almost like we have ESPN.
Magic JohnsonMagic Johnson 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.
Magic JohnsonMagic Johnson HIV changed my life, but it doesn’t keep me from living.
Magic JohnsonMagic Johnson A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
Magic JohnsonMagic Johnson Trust me. I get up 530-6 every morning. I’m in the gym. I run a couple miles. I lift weights, and then I’m at work until 8-9 o’clock at night.
Magic JohnsonMagic Johnson The attitude that I’m going to show everybody, I’m going to work hard to get better and better.
Magic JohnsonMagic Johnson In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.
Magic JohnsonMagic Johnson 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,
Magic JohnsonMagic Johnson
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Magic JohnsonMagic Johnson I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in ’95.
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