HIV changed my life, but it doesn’t keep me from living.
MAGIC JOHNSONMagic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That’s that. That’s easy.
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I strive on pressure.
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I 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.
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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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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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Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.
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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 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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I wouldn’t do the ‘Magic Hour’ again, but I would do TV again. The ‘Magic Hour’ is not me.
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I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.
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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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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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Young people want you to be real with them.
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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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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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You either have to be great or you have to be bad to get a good pick.
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It’s a burden trying to keep a secret. It’s hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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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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Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.
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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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There’s Michael [Jordan], then there’s the rest of us.
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For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball.
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I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
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The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.
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A woman always remembers. Remember that.
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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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