The worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor’s office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.
MAGIC JOHNSONWhen 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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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know.
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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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If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have.
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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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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That’s that. That’s easy.
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Most people who are healthy, and I’m healthy, can’t even live my life.
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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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I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young [sons] become men.
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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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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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Research your idea. See if there’s a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don’t know if there’s a need for it.
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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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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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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
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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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