Young people want you to be real with them.
MAGIC JOHNSONI think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says ‘No’, then you have to knock on the next door.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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I’ve always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I’d read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.
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Most people who are healthy, and I’m healthy, can’t even live my life.
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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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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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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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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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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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Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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