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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More Magic Johnson Quotes
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They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
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You can’t get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.
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The attitude that I’m going to show everybody, I’m going to work hard to get better and better.
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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 worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor’s office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.
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Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.
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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
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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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We cut him off and there was nowhere for him to go but out of bounds … It’s still the greatest move I’ve ever seen in basketball, the all-time greatest.
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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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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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There’s Michael [Jordan], then there’s the rest of us.
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I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
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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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If people around you aren’t going anywhere, if their dreams are no bigger than hanging out on the corner, or if they’re dragging you down, get rid of them.
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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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Don’t give up! Be friends with people who help you work hard.
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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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Most people who are healthy, and I’m healthy, can’t even live my life.
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I respect that. I can respect you more by doing that. But don’t smile in my face, shake my hand, and then you don’t really respect me, or want me to be around, or come to your games as the owner of the Clippers.
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Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.
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I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.
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I started in business over 25 years ago and have found a way to build on what I’ve learned through every partnership and opportunity.
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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 met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I’m talking about just for the league itself.
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