You can’t get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
MAGIC JOHNSONEverybody on a championship team doesn’t get publicity, but everyone can say he’s a champion.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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If you’re a competitive person, that stays with you. You don’t stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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The 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.
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Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.
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If you come to me and say, ‘Hey look I’m a racist,’ or ‘I discriminate against blacks,’ or ‘I don’t like you because you’re African American.
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Because if you’re going to lose, lose. I’m serious.
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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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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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In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.
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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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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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If you hate to lose, you do whatever you need to do to make sure you’re business is successful.
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