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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More Magic Johnson Quotes
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They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
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I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.
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I 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.
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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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I 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.
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I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.
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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 want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here.
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Because if you’re going to lose, lose. I’m serious.
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On his telepathic understanding with James Worthy- It’s almost like we have ESPN.
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Trust me. I get up 530-6 every morning. I’m in the gym. I run a couple miles. I lift weights, and then I’m at work until 8-9 o’clock at night.
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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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We are also a company that understands community.
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I’m at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
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You can’t get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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