If you want someone to be your mentor, you better be ready to listen and be humbled.
MAGIC JOHNSONJealousy is invariably a symptom. Just like right now with the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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You know I was a shy guy and people didn’t know that and still don’t know it today. I’m sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.
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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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I grew up poor, but I didn’t have poor dreams
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know.
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You also have to research your competition.
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No I changed my mind. I’ll go up on the other side.’ He’s just incredible.
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I started in business over 25 years ago and have found a way to build on what I’ve learned through every partnership and opportunity.
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You can’t get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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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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Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.
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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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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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Most people who are healthy, and I’m healthy, can’t even live my life.
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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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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.
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I’m a big believer in dreaming. If you don’t dream it, you can’t become it.
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I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.
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I really want people to know that I’ve worked hard, very hard, to get to where I am today.. this didn’t just happen overnight.
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I 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.
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As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.
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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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I 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.
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We cut him off and there was nowhere for him to go but out of bounds … It’s still the greatest move I’ve ever seen in basketball, the all-time greatest.
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HIV changed my life, but it doesn’t keep me from living.
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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 picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.
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