Research your idea. See if there’s a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don’t know if there’s a need for it.
MAGIC JOHNSONResearch your idea. See if there’s a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don’t know if there’s a need for it.
MAGIC JOHNSONI 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.
MAGIC JOHNSONIf the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community.
MAGIC JOHNSONThe real story is that I had unprotected sex. That’s that. That’s easy.
MAGIC JOHNSONI love business. I love helping urban communities grow. I love putting people to work of color. I love making sure – like right now the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.
MAGIC JOHNSONIt all started when I got injured early in my second season. This turned out to be as difficult emotionally as physically.
MAGIC JOHNSONThe 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.
MAGIC JOHNSONLife doesnt stop because something happens to you.
MAGIC JOHNSONYou know I was a shy guy and people didn’t know that and still don’t know it today. I’m sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.
MAGIC JOHNSONI 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 JOHNSONThe 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.
MAGIC JOHNSONI 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.
MAGIC JOHNSONThere’s Michael [Jordan], then there’s the rest of us.
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.
MAGIC JOHNSONI want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here.
MAGIC JOHNSONI was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.
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