The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.
MAGIC JOHNSONThe audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.
MAGIC JOHNSONI’m a big believer in dreaming. If you don’t dream it, you can’t become it.
MAGIC JOHNSONI wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.
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 JOHNSONA competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
MAGIC JOHNSONTo me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
MAGIC JOHNSONA lot of black guys always ask me, ‘Did Larry Bird really play that good?’ I said, ‘Larry Bird is so good it’s frightening.’
MAGIC JOHNSONAny guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.
MAGIC JOHNSONI’m from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers… it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.
MAGIC JOHNSONI want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young [sons] become men.
MAGIC JOHNSONIf 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.
MAGIC JOHNSONThe worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor’s office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.
MAGIC JOHNSONNo I changed my mind. I’ll go up on the other side.’ He’s just incredible.
MAGIC JOHNSONI guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.
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 am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That’s the key I may be up early, but I’m in bed early too.
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