Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.
MAGIC JOHNSONI wouldn’t do the ‘Magic Hour’ again, but I would do TV again. The ‘Magic Hour’ is not me.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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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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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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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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You don’t have to be Magic to be special. You’re already special, you’re you.
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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.
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Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.
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I grew up poor, but I didn’t have poor dreams
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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 guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.
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I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says ‘No’, then you have to knock on the next door.
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Life doesnt stop because something happens to you.
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I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers’ duel.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
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In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.
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I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
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