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.
MAGIC JOHNSONI 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.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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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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People don’t stop eating, and they don’t stop drinking coffee.
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All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
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Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.
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Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing.
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Most people who are healthy, and I’m healthy, can’t even live my life.
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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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I grew up poor, but I didn’t have poor dreams
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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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On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.
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It’s a burden trying to keep a secret. It’s hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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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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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know.
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Life doesnt stop because something happens to you.
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Once Michael gets up there he says, ‘Well, maybe I’ll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back.’ Then all of a sudden, he says, ‘Well, maybe I’ll 360.
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