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.
MAGIC JOHNSONI grew up poor, but I didn’t have poor dreams
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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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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The important thing is this Just because I’m doing well doesn’t mean that they’re going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.
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If the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community.
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On his telepathic understanding with James Worthy- It’s almost like we have ESPN.
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I’m at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
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I love business. I love helping urban communities grow. I love putting people to work of color. I love making sure – like right now the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.
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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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There’s winning and there’s losing, and in life you have to know they both will happen. But what’s never been acceptable to me is quitting.
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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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The looks, the stares, the giggles . . . I wanted to show everybody that I could do better and also that I could read.
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Life doesnt stop because something happens to you.
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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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If you come to me and say, ‘Hey look I’m a racist,’ or ‘I discriminate against blacks,’ or ‘I don’t like you because you’re African American.
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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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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
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