Because if you’re going to lose, lose. I’m serious.
MAGIC JOHNSONThe attitude that I’m going to show everybody, I’m going to work hard to get better and better.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
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With businesses, you go to the same places because you like the service, you like the people and they take care of you. They greet you with a smile. That’s how people want to be treated, with respect. That’s what I tell my employees – customer service is very important.
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God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
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I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.
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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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Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.
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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 found out that a person named Elizabeth Frazier was living with AIDS at the time, and so I called her up, and she took a meeting with me.
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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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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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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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Standing on that platform, I said a silent prayer. I thanked God for giving me the strength and the opportunity to come back, to play basketball again, and to be part of that whole magnificent Olympic experience. It’s a memory I will always cherish.
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know.
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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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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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