When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
MAGIC JOHNSONI strive on pressure.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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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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If you’re a competitive person, that stays with you. You don’t stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.
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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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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
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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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On his telepathic understanding with James Worthy- It’s almost like we have ESPN.
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I’m a big believer in dreaming. If you don’t dream it, you can’t become it.
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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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I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.
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Everybody on a championship team doesn’t get publicity, but everyone can say he’s a champion.
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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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They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
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Standing on that platform, I said a silent prayer. I thanked God for giving me the strength and the opportunity to come back, to play basketball again, and to be part of that whole magnificent Olympic experience. It’s a memory I will always cherish.
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