Don’t give up! Be friends with people who help you work hard.
MAGIC JOHNSONDon’t give up! Be friends with people who help you work hard.
MAGIC JOHNSONI want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young [sons] become men.
MAGIC JOHNSONI want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here.
MAGIC JOHNSONIt’s almost like we have ESPN.
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 JOHNSONIt all started when I got injured early in my second season. This turned out to be as difficult emotionally as physically.
MAGIC JOHNSONEven as a fierce competitor I try to smile.
MAGIC JOHNSONI 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.
MAGIC JOHNSONI was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.
MAGIC JOHNSONI grew up poor, but I didn’t have poor dreams
MAGIC JOHNSONI tell you, it’s funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.
MAGIC JOHNSONLife doesnt stop because something happens to you.
MAGIC JOHNSONAll kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
MAGIC JOHNSONOn his telepathic understanding with James Worthy- It’s almost like we have ESPN.
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 JOHNSONIf 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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