If you come to me and say, ‘Hey look I’m a racist,’ or ‘I discriminate against blacks,’ or ‘I don’t like you because you’re African American.
MAGIC JOHNSONMy father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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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.
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I strive on pressure.
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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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On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.
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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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In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.
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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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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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If you hate to lose, you do whatever you need to do to make sure you’re business is successful.
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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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Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.
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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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You either have to be great or you have to be bad to get a good pick.
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God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
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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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