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.
MAGIC JOHNSONStanding 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.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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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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On his telepathic understanding with James Worthy- It’s almost like we have ESPN.
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I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.
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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could’ve had.
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We cut him off and there was nowhere for him to go but out of bounds … It’s still the greatest move I’ve ever seen in basketball, the all-time greatest.
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HIV changed my life, but it doesn’t keep me from living.
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I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
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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 love business. I love helping urban communities grow. I love putting people to work of color. I love making sure – like right now the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.
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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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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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My 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.
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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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Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.
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