Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.
MAGIC JOHNSONAnything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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I’ve always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I’d read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.
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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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Larry, you only told me one lie. You said there will be another Larry Bird. Larry, there will never, ever be another Larry Bird.
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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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The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.
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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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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 almost like we have ESPN.
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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.
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Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.
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In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.
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The important thing is this Just because I’m doing well doesn’t mean that they’re going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.
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I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says ‘No’, then you have to knock on the next door.
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I’m a big believer in dreaming. If you don’t dream it, you can’t become it.
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Everybody on a championship team doesn’t get publicity, but everyone can say he’s a champion.
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