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.
MAGIC JOHNSONI guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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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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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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Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players.
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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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Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.
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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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You can’t get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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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 picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.
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They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
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The important thing is this Just because I’m doing well doesn’t mean that they’re going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That’s that. That’s easy.
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Young people want you to be real with them.
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Once Michael gets up there he says, ‘Well, maybe I’ll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back.’ Then all of a sudden, he says, ‘Well, maybe I’ll 360.
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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could’ve had.
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