Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.
MAGIC JOHNSONIf 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.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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I was able to see what I wanted to do, I could see the opportunity, even when others could not, and I stay committed to doing it and doing it well, no matter what.
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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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On his telepathic understanding with James Worthy- It’s almost like we have ESPN.
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I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day.
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To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
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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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I’m from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers… it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.
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There’s Michael [Jordan], then there’s the rest of us.
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I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.
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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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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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For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball.
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Young people want you to be real with them.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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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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