I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers’ duel.
MAGIC JOHNSONMy father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were – they still are – great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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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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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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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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You also have to research your competition.
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If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to use every connection you’ve got.
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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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Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.
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The attitude that I’m going to show everybody, I’m going to work hard to get better and better.
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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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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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Assists is what Earvin is all about. That’s what my whole life has been, assisting others.
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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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In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.
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We are also a company that understands community.
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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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I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man,
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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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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know.
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I really want people to know that I’ve worked hard, very hard, to get to where I am today.. this didn’t just happen overnight.
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I’m at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
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I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
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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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To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
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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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