It all started when I got injured early in my second season. This turned out to be as difficult emotionally as physically.
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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When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me understand my journey and what I was going to have to deal with day-to-day.
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For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball.
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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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With businesses, you go to the same places because you like the service, you like the people and they take care of you. They greet you with a smile. That’s how people want to be treated, with respect. That’s what I tell my employees – customer service is very important.
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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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A woman always remembers. Remember that.
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Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.
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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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If you want someone to be your mentor, you better be ready to listen and be humbled.
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You either have to be great or you have to be bad to get a good pick.
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My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
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Life doesnt stop because something happens to you.
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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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When I’m under the gun and I’ve got pressure on me, I don’t panic. I look for the right solution, and then I go for it.
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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’m at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
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The looks, the stares, the giggles . . . I wanted to show everybody that I could do better and also that I could read.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
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Most people who are healthy, and I’m healthy, can’t even live my life.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That’s that. That’s easy.
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I 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.
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I was able to see what I wanted to do, I could see the opportunity, even when others could not, and I stay committed to doing it and doing it well, no matter what.
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I strive on pressure.
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We are a company that lives and breathes a philosophy that’s centered on not only making sound business decisions but also personally and professionally finding ways to contribute to the well being of society.
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man,
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I tell you, it’s funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.
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