HIV changed my life, but it doesn’t keep me from living.
MAGIC JOHNSONOnce 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.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know.
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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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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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I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.
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WE all have to play as a team to make the world a better place
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I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says ‘No’, then you have to knock on the next door.
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Everybody on a championship team doesn’t get publicity, but everyone can say he’s a champion.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That’s that. That’s easy.
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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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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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You don’t have to be Magic to be special. You’re already special, you’re you.
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We are also a company that understands community.
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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. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day.
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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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I’ve always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I’d read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.
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