On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.
MAGIC JOHNSONEverybody on a championship team doesn’t get publicity, but everyone can say he’s a champion.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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You either have to be great or you have to be bad to get a good pick.
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People don’t stop eating, and they don’t stop drinking coffee.
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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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Assists is what Earvin is all about. That’s what my whole life has been, assisting others.
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For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball.
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My 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.
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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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Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.
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I love business. I love helping urban communities grow. I love putting people to work of color. I love making sure – like right now the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.
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A woman always remembers. Remember that.
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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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I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers’ duel.
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Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.
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Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know.
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