If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to use every connection you’ve got.
MAGIC JOHNSONAny guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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Christmas Day was special because everybody is watching at home. That’s what I loved about Christmas Day because it shined the spotlight on the Lakers, on our team.
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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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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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All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
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I really want people to know that I’ve worked hard, very hard, to get to where I am today.. this didn’t just happen overnight.
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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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It’s almost like we have ESPN.
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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’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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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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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 grew up poor, but I didn’t have poor dreams
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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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I 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.
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People don’t stop eating, and they don’t stop drinking coffee.
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I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
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We are also a company that understands community.
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When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me understand my journey and what I was going to have to deal with day-to-day.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
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The attitude that I’m going to show everybody, I’m going to work hard to get better and better.
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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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On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.
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I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I’m talking about just for the league itself.
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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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WE all have to play as a team to make the world a better place
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They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
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