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.
MAGIC JOHNSONI 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.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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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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In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.
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You don’t have to be Magic to be special. You’re already special, you’re you.
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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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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
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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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The worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor’s office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.
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I grew up poor, but I didn’t have poor dreams
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On his telepathic understanding with James Worthy- It’s almost like we have ESPN.
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Young people want you to be real with them.
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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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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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Don’t give up! Be friends with people who help you work hard.
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HIV changed my life, but it doesn’t keep me from living.
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I was able to see what I wanted to do, I could see the opportunity, even when others could not, and I stay committed to doing it and doing it well, no matter what.
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