Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could’ve had.
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.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.
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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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If you’re a competitive person, that stays with you. You don’t stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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You 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.
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Jealousy is invariably a symptom. Just like right now with the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.
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I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.
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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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There’s Michael [Jordan], then there’s the rest of us.
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They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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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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All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
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I really want people to know that I’ve worked hard, very hard, to get to where I am today.. this didn’t just happen overnight.
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I’m a big believer in dreaming. If you don’t dream it, you can’t become it.
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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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