I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day.
MAGIC JOHNSONI was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers’ duel.
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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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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could’ve had.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
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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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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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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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HIV changed my life, but it doesn’t keep me from living.
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I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
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I started in business over 25 years ago and have found a way to build on what I’ve learned through every partnership and opportunity.
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The attitude that I’m going to show everybody, I’m going to work hard to get better and better.
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You don’t have to be Magic to be special. You’re already special, you’re you.
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My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were – they still are – great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.
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I 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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We cut him off and there was nowhere for him to go but out of bounds … It’s still the greatest move I’ve ever seen in basketball, the all-time greatest.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That’s that. That’s easy.
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People don’t stop eating, and they don’t stop drinking coffee.
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Assists is what Earvin is all about. That’s what my whole life has been, assisting others.
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Standing on that platform, I said a silent prayer. I thanked God for giving me the strength and the opportunity to come back, to play basketball again, and to be part of that whole magnificent Olympic experience. It’s a memory I will always cherish.
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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
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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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And we knew that all of the other leagues were at home and millions of people were watching. So it made it a special day to play on Christmas.
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I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young [sons] become men.
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There’s Michael [Jordan], then there’s the rest of us.
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Christmas 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.
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I 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.
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