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.
MAGIC JOHNSONIn life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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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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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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A woman always remembers. Remember that.
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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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We are also a company that understands community.
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I grew up poor, but I didn’t have poor dreams
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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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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know.
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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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You also have to research your competition.
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We are a company that lives and breathes a philosophy that’s centered on not only making sound business decisions but also personally and professionally finding ways to contribute to the well being of society.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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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 was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.
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I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That’s the key I may be up early, but I’m in bed early too.
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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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You don’t have to be Magic to be special. You’re already special, you’re you.
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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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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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Christmas Day was special because everybody is watching at home. That’s what I loved about Christmas Day because it shined the spotlight on the Lakers, on our team.
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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 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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If you want someone to be your mentor, you better be ready to listen and be humbled.
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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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Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.
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My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were – they still are – great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.
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