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.
MAGIC JOHNSONIf 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.
MAGIC JOHNSONI want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day.
MAGIC JOHNSONAll kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
MAGIC JOHNSONIf you want to be successful, you have to be willing to use every connection you’ve got.
MAGIC JOHNSONI love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers’ duel.
MAGIC JOHNSONWhen 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.
MAGIC JOHNSONIf 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.
MAGIC JOHNSONIn life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.
MAGIC JOHNSONMagic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.
MAGIC JOHNSONI 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.
MAGIC JOHNSONA competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
MAGIC JOHNSONThe 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.
MAGIC JOHNSONThere’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.
MAGIC JOHNSONFor me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball.
MAGIC JOHNSONI 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.
MAGIC JOHNSONNo I changed my mind. I’ll go up on the other side.’ He’s just incredible.
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