They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
MAGIC JOHNSONI was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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It all started when I got injured early in my second season. This turned out to be as difficult emotionally as physically.
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On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.
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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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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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You don’t have to be Magic to be special. You’re already special, you’re you.
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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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No I changed my mind. I’ll go up on the other side.’ He’s just incredible.
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I grew up poor, but I didn’t have poor dreams
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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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In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.
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I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
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WE all have to play as a team to make the world a better place
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A lot of black guys always ask me, ‘Did Larry Bird really play that good?’ I said, ‘Larry Bird is so good it’s frightening.’
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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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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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