For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball.
MAGIC JOHNSONI want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.
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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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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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You don’t have to be Magic to be special. You’re already special, you’re you.
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Research your idea. See if there’s a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don’t know if there’s a need for it.
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Once Michael gets up there he says, ‘Well, maybe I’ll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back.’ Then all of a sudden, he says, ‘Well, maybe I’ll 360.
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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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I wouldn’t do the ‘Magic Hour’ again, but I would do TV again. The ‘Magic Hour’ is not me.
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I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young [sons] become men.
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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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And we knew that all of the other leagues were at home and millions of people were watching. So it made it a special day to play on Christmas.
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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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Trust me. I get up 530-6 every morning. I’m in the gym. I run a couple miles. I lift weights, and then I’m at work until 8-9 o’clock at night.
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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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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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