I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.
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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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could’ve had.
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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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If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to use every connection you’ve got.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
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I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.
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With businesses, you go to the same places because you like the service, you like the people and they take care of you. They greet you with a smile. That’s how people want to be treated, with respect. That’s what I tell my employees – customer service is very important.
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Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players.
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I strive on pressure.
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We are also a company that understands community.
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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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Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.
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Trust me. I get up 530-6 every morning. I’m in the gym. I run a couple miles. I lift weights, and then I’m at work until 8-9 o’clock at night.
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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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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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Don’t give up! Be friends with people who help you work hard.
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