I’ve always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I’d read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.
MAGIC JOHNSONI 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.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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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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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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There’s winning and there’s losing, and in life you have to know they both will happen. But what’s never been acceptable to me is quitting.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
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Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.
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There’s Michael [Jordan], then there’s the rest of us.
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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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People don’t stop eating, and they don’t stop drinking coffee.
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On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.
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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 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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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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If you want someone to be your mentor, you better be ready to listen and be humbled.
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I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I’m talking about just for the league itself.
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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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