People don’t stop eating, and they don’t stop drinking coffee.
MAGIC JOHNSONI respect that. I can respect you more by doing that. But don’t smile in my face, shake my hand, and then you don’t really respect me, or want me to be around, or come to your games as the owner of the Clippers.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.
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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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I grew up poor, but I didn’t have poor dreams
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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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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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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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On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.
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We are also a company that understands community.
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For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball.
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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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Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.
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I respect that. I can respect you more by doing that. But don’t smile in my face, shake my hand, and then you don’t really respect me, or want me to be around, or come to your games as the owner of the Clippers.
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I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.
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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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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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