If you’re a competitive person, that stays with you. You don’t stop. You always look over your shoulder.
MAGIC JOHNSONI want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young [sons] become men.
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You also have to research your competition.
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Standing on that platform, I said a silent prayer. I thanked God for giving me the strength and the opportunity to come back, to play basketball again, and to be part of that whole magnificent Olympic experience. It’s a memory I will always cherish.
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Don’t give up! Be friends with people who help you work hard.
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I wouldn’t do the ‘Magic Hour’ again, but I would do TV again. The ‘Magic Hour’ is not me.
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I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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A woman always remembers. Remember that.
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Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.
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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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Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.
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A lot of black guys always ask me, ‘Did Larry Bird really play that good?’ I said, ‘Larry Bird is so good it’s frightening.’
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The worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor’s office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.
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You know I was a shy guy and people didn’t know that and still don’t know it today. I’m sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.
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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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Because if you’re going to lose, lose. I’m serious.
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