It’s a burden trying to keep a secret. It’s hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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More Magic Johnson Quotes
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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 want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young [sons] become men.
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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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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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I 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.
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It all started when I got injured early in my second season. This turned out to be as difficult emotionally as physically.
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I wouldn’t do the ‘Magic Hour’ again, but I would do TV again. The ‘Magic Hour’ is not me.
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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 was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.
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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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There’s winning and there’s losing, and in life you have to know they both will happen. But what’s never been acceptable to me is quitting.
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I strive on pressure.
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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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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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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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