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.
MAGIC JOHNSONI really want people to know that I’ve worked hard, very hard, to get to where I am today.. this didn’t just happen overnight.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
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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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I found out that a person named Elizabeth Frazier was living with AIDS at the time, and so I called her up, and she took a meeting with me.
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I grew up poor, but I didn’t have poor dreams
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I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day.
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To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
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Life doesnt stop because something happens to you.
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Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players.
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Young people want you to be real with them.
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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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They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
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Because if you’re going to lose, lose. I’m serious.
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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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For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball.
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On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.
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