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.
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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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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Because if you’re going to lose, lose. I’m serious.
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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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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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The important thing is this Just because I’m doing well doesn’t mean that they’re going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.
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People don’t stop eating, and they don’t stop drinking coffee.
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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.
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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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On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.
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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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I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.
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I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.
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Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.
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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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