There’s Michael [Jordan], then there’s the rest of us.
MAGIC JOHNSONThere’s Michael [Jordan], then there’s the rest of us.
MAGIC JOHNSONYou know I was a shy guy and people didn’t know that and still don’t know it today. I’m sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.
MAGIC JOHNSONI 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.
MAGIC JOHNSONI am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
MAGIC JOHNSONIf you hate to lose, you do whatever you need to do to make sure you’re business is successful.
MAGIC JOHNSONMost people who are healthy, and I’m healthy, can’t even live my life.
MAGIC JOHNSONI picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.
MAGIC JOHNSONLife doesnt stop because something happens to you.
MAGIC JOHNSONWhen you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
MAGIC JOHNSONI am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That’s the key I may be up early, but I’m in bed early too.
MAGIC JOHNSONThe looks, the stares, the giggles . . . I wanted to show everybody that I could do better and also that I could read.
MAGIC JOHNSONYou either have to be great or you have to be bad to get a good pick.
MAGIC JOHNSONMagic 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.
MAGIC JOHNSONIn life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.
MAGIC JOHNSONI love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers’ duel.
MAGIC JOHNSONWe 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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