Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.
MAGIC JOHNSONJust celebrate the life you had, not the life you could’ve had.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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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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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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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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It’s almost like we have ESPN.
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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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Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players.
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know.
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I strive on pressure.
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When I’m under the gun and I’ve got pressure on me, I don’t panic. I look for the right solution, and then I go for it.
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Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.
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I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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Young people want you to be real with them.
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I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I’m talking about just for the league itself.
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I grew up poor, but I didn’t have poor dreams
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