Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.
MAGIC JOHNSONI grew up poor, but I didn’t have poor dreams
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to use every connection you’ve got.
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Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.
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A woman always remembers. Remember that.
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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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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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There’s Michael [Jordan], then there’s the rest of us.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
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Magic 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.
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They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
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Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing.
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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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I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.
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The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.
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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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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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