When I’m under the gun and I’ve got pressure on me, I don’t panic. I look for the right solution, and then I go for it.
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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Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing.
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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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The looks, the stares, the giggles . . . I wanted to show everybody that I could do better and also that I could read.
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I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
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I remember like it was yesterday. He had worked all those years to own that house and he cried. He was so excited and so happy and I want to see other people get that feeling, too.
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God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
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I 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.
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If you’re a competitive person, that stays with you. You don’t stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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You can’t get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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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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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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I never think that there’s something I can’t do, whether it’s beating my opponent one on one or practicing another hour because something about my game is just not right.
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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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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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