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.
MAGIC JOHNSONChristmas 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.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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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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Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.
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For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball.
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Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players.
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If you’re a competitive person, that stays with you. You don’t stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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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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Because if you’re going to lose, lose. I’m serious.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That’s that. That’s easy.
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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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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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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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I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.
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Young people want you to be real with them.
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Don’t give up! Be friends with people who help you work hard.
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If you hate to lose, you do whatever you need to do to make sure you’re business is successful.
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