Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could’ve had.
MAGIC JOHNSONI’ve always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I’d read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.
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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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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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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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Don’t give up! Be friends with people who help you work hard.
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God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
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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 want to be successful, you have to be willing to use every connection you’ve got.
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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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When I’m under the gun and I’ve got pressure on me, I don’t panic. I look for the right solution, and then I go for it.
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Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know.
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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 am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
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There’s Michael [Jordan], then there’s the rest of us.
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