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 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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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know.
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Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.
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I’m from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers… it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.
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You don’t have to be Magic to be special. You’re already special, you’re you.
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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 was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.
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There’s Michael [Jordan], then there’s the rest of us.
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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 tell you, it’s funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.
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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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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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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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If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have.
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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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I strive on pressure.
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