Trust me. I get up 530-6 every morning. I’m in the gym. I run a couple miles. I lift weights, and then I’m at work until 8-9 o’clock at night.
MAGIC JOHNSONI want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young [sons] become men.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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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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We 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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I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers’ duel.
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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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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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HIV changed my life, but it doesn’t keep me from living.
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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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I respect that. I can respect you more by doing that. But don’t smile in my face, shake my hand, and then you don’t really respect me, or want me to be around, or come to your games as the owner of the Clippers.
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know.
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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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Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.
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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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My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
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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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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That’s that. That’s easy.
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Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.
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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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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could’ve had.
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The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.
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I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.
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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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I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.
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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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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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