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.
MAGIC JOHNSONWhen you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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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 grew up poor, but I didn’t have poor dreams
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If you hate to lose, you do whatever you need to do to make sure you’re business is successful.
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To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
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The looks, the stares, the giggles . . . I wanted to show everybody that I could do better and also that I could read.
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WE all have to play as a team to make the world a better place
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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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There’s Michael [Jordan], then there’s the rest of us.
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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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A woman always remembers. Remember that.
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I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.
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I’m at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
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HIV changed my life, but it doesn’t keep me from living.
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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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I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.
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Everybody on a championship team doesn’t get publicity, but everyone can say he’s a champion.
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I’m from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers… it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.
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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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Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.
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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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I never think that there’s something I can’t do, whether it’s beating my opponent one on one or practicing another hour because something about my game is just not right.
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know.
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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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They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man,
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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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