A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
MAGIC JOHNSONAnything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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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.
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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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The attitude that I’m going to show everybody, I’m going to work hard to get better and better.
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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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To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
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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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For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball.
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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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Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.
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Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.
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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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I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
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I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.
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If 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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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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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know.
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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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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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Jealousy is invariably a symptom. Just like right now with the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.
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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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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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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could’ve had.
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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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You’re the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.
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