HIV changed my life, but it doesn’t keep me from living.
MAGIC JOHNSONWhen you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players.
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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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If the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community.
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I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
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Assists is what Earvin is all about. That’s what my whole life has been, assisting others.
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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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I’m from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers… it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.
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I 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.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and dont let anyone tell you you cant. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.
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They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
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Larry, you only told me one lie. You said there will be another Larry Bird. Larry, there will never, ever be another Larry Bird.
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Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.
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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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My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were – they still are – great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That’s that. That’s easy.
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know.
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I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.
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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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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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I tell you, it’s funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.
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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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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man,
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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’m at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
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There’s Michael [Jordan], then there’s the rest of us.
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