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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More Magic Johnson Quotes
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WE all have to play as a team to make the world a better place
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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
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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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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know.
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Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.
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Christmas Day was special because everybody is watching at home. That’s what I loved about Christmas Day because it shined the spotlight on the Lakers, on our team.
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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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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 picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.
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As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.
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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 strive on pressure.
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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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I respect that. I can respect you more by doing that. But don’t smile in my face, shake my hand, and then you don’t really respect me, or want me to be around, or come to your games as the owner of the Clippers.
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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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