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.
MAGIC JOHNSONIf 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.
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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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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HIV changed my life, but it doesn’t keep me from living.
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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
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Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players.
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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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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.
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I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young [sons] become men.
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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 think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says ‘No’, then you have to knock on the next door.
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I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.
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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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I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.
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Young people want you to be real with them.
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Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.
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