Everybody on a championship team doesn’t get publicity, but everyone can say he’s a champion.
MAGIC JOHNSONNo I changed my mind. I’ll go up on the other side.’ He’s just incredible.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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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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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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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 you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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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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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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You know I was a shy guy and people didn’t know that and still don’t know it today. I’m sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.
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I really want people to know that I’ve worked hard, very hard, to get to where I am today.. this didn’t just happen overnight.
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I never think that there’s something I can’t do, whether it’s beating my opponent one on one or practicing another hour because something about my game is just not right.
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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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Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.
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I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That’s that. That’s easy.
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I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
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If you want someone to be your mentor, you better be ready to listen and be humbled.
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