Everybody on a championship team doesn’t get publicity, but everyone can say he’s a champion.
MAGIC JOHNSONYou can’t get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
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The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.
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Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players.
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I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
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A woman always remembers. Remember that.
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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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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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Most people who are healthy, and I’m healthy, can’t even live my life.
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Assists is what Earvin is all about. That’s what my whole life has been, assisting others.
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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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I was able to see what I wanted to do, I could see the opportunity, even when others could not, and I stay committed to doing it and doing it well, no matter what.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That’s that. That’s easy.
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There’s Michael [Jordan], then there’s the rest of us.
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My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
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