It’s a burden trying to keep a secret. It’s hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
MAGIC JOHNSONOn the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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I never think that there’s something I can’t do, whether it’s beating my opponent one on one or practicing another hour because something about my game is just not right.
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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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And we knew that all of the other leagues were at home and millions of people were watching. So it made it a special day to play on Christmas.
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I remember like it was yesterday. He had worked all those years to own that house and he cried. He was so excited and so happy and I want to see other people get that feeling, too.
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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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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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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know.
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I really want people to know that I’ve worked hard, very hard, to get to where I am today.. this didn’t just happen overnight.
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Most people who are healthy, and I’m healthy, can’t even live my life.
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Young people want you to be real with them.
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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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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 strive on pressure.
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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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Everybody on a championship team doesn’t get publicity, but everyone can say he’s a champion.
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Jealousy is invariably a symptom. Just like right now with the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.
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The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.
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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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If you want someone to be your mentor, you better be ready to listen and be humbled.
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As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.
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I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.
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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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Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing.
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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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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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I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.
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