Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.
MAGIC JOHNSONYou also have to research your competition.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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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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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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Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.
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Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players.
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Standing on that platform, I said a silent prayer. I thanked God for giving me the strength and the opportunity to come back, to play basketball again, and to be part of that whole magnificent Olympic experience. It’s a memory I will always cherish.
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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 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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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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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
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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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I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here.
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HIV changed my life, but it doesn’t keep me from living.
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man,
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Jealousy is invariably a symptom. Just like right now with the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.
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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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