Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.
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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Everybody on a championship team doesn’t get publicity, but everyone can say he’s a champion.
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I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young [sons] become men.
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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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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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It all started when I got injured early in my second season. This turned out to be as difficult emotionally as physically.
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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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You either have to be great or you have to be bad to get a good pick.
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I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
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Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players.
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A lot of black guys always ask me, ‘Did Larry Bird really play that good?’ I said, ‘Larry Bird is so good it’s frightening.’
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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
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I wouldn’t do the ‘Magic Hour’ again, but I would do TV again. The ‘Magic Hour’ is not me.
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WE all have to play as a team to make the world a better place
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man,
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All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
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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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To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
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A woman always remembers. Remember that.
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I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers’ duel.
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You also have to research your competition.
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Once Michael gets up there he says, ‘Well, maybe I’ll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back.’ Then all of a sudden, he says, ‘Well, maybe I’ll 360.
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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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I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day.
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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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I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here.
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HIV changed my life, but it doesn’t keep me from living.
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