It’s almost like we have ESPN.
MAGIC JOHNSONEven as a fierce competitor I try to smile.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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If you’re a competitive person, that stays with you. You don’t stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know.
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Magic 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.
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I wouldn’t do the ‘Magic Hour’ again, but I would do TV again. The ‘Magic Hour’ is not me.
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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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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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Don’t give up! Be friends with people who help you work hard.
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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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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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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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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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I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers’ duel.
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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.
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When 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.
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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could’ve had.
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