They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
MAGIC JOHNSONThe looks, the stares, the giggles . . . I wanted to show everybody that I could do better and also that I could read.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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No I changed my mind. I’ll go up on the other side.’ He’s just incredible.
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Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.
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You either have to be great or you have to be bad to get a good pick.
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I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
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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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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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Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.
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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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Don’t give up! Be friends with people who help you work hard.
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I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.
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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 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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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
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The worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor’s office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.
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