You don’t have to be Magic to be special. You’re already special, you’re you.
MAGIC JOHNSONThe 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.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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I 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.
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Young people want you to be real with them.
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For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball.
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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 guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.
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A lot of black guys always ask me, ‘Did Larry Bird really play that good?’ I said, ‘Larry Bird is so good it’s frightening.’
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If you want someone to be your mentor, you better be ready to listen and be humbled.
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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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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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You 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.
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To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
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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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Life doesnt stop because something happens to you.
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I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.
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Research your idea. See if there’s a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don’t know if there’s a need for it.
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Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players.
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I strive on pressure.
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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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WE all have to play as a team to make the world a better place
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Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing.
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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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In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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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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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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