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.
MAGIC JOHNSONPeople don’t stop eating, and they don’t stop drinking coffee.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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Don’t give up! Be friends with people who help you work hard.
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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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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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I grew up poor, but I didn’t have poor dreams
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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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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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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could’ve had.
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It all started when I got injured early in my second season. This turned out to be as difficult emotionally as physically.
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HIV changed my life, but it doesn’t keep me from living.
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If you hate to lose, you do whatever you need to do to make sure you’re business is successful.
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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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Once Michael gets up there he says, ‘Well, maybe I’ll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back.’ Then all of a sudden, he says, ‘Well, maybe I’ll 360.
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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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My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
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