If you want someone to be your mentor, you better be ready to listen and be humbled.
MAGIC JOHNSONWe 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.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could’ve had.
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I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
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A lot of black guys always ask me, ‘Did Larry Bird really play that good?’ I said, ‘Larry Bird is so good it’s frightening.’
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Don’t give up! Be friends with people who help you work hard.
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I found out that a person named Elizabeth Frazier was living with AIDS at the time, and so I called her up, and she took a meeting with me.
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I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.
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You’re the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.
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I 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.
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Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players.
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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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If the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community.
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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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Jealousy is invariably a symptom. Just like right now with the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
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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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