When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
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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If you’re a competitive person, that stays with you. You don’t stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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It all started when I got injured early in my second season. This turned out to be as difficult emotionally as physically.
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Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.
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They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
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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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With businesses, you go to the same places because you like the service, you like the people and they take care of you. They greet you with a smile. That’s how people want to be treated, with respect. That’s what I tell my employees – customer service is very important.
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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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As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.
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When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me understand my journey and what I was going to have to deal with day-to-day.
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I tell you, it’s funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.
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On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.
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The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.
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No I changed my mind. I’ll go up on the other side.’ He’s just incredible.
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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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We cut him off and there was nowhere for him to go but out of bounds … It’s still the greatest move I’ve ever seen in basketball, the all-time greatest.
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