Everybody on a championship team doesn’t get publicity, but everyone can say he’s a champion.
MAGIC JOHNSONWhen you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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If people around you aren’t going anywhere, if their dreams are no bigger than hanging out on the corner, or if they’re dragging you down, get rid of them.
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With businesses, you go to the same places because you like the service, you like the people and they take care of you. They greet you with a smile. That’s how people want to be treated, with respect. That’s what I tell my employees – customer service is very important.
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know.
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On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.
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Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.
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I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
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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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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
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In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.
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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.
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To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could’ve had.
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I’m at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
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I 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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Young people want you to be real with them.
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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.
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If 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.
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It’s a burden trying to keep a secret. It’s hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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People don’t stop eating, and they don’t stop drinking coffee.
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I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.
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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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A woman always remembers. Remember that.
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If you hate to lose, you do whatever you need to do to make sure you’re business is successful.
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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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I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.
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Most people who are healthy, and I’m healthy, can’t even live my life.
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