If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to use every connection you’ve got.
MAGIC JOHNSONI’m at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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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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I’m a big believer in dreaming. If you don’t dream it, you can’t become it.
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There’s Michael [Jordan], then there’s the rest of us.
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In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.
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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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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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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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I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That’s the key I may be up early, but I’m in bed early too.
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I strive on pressure.
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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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They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
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A woman always remembers. Remember that.
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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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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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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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On his telepathic understanding with James Worthy- It’s almost like we have ESPN.
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Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.
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I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.
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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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The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.
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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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You don’t have to be Magic to be special. You’re already special, you’re you.
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I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young [sons] become men.
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On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.
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I was able to see what I wanted to do, I could see the opportunity, even when others could not, and I stay committed to doing it and doing it well, no matter what.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
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