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.
MAGIC JOHNSONIf you’re a competitive person, that stays with you. You don’t stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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 important thing is this Just because I’m doing well doesn’t mean that they’re going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know.
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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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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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Once Michael gets up there he says, ‘Well, maybe I’ll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back.’ Then all of a sudden, he says, ‘Well, maybe I’ll 360.
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On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.
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All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
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Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.
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To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
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You either have to be great or you have to be bad to get a good pick.
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Because if you’re going to lose, lose. I’m serious.
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I’m a big believer in dreaming. If you don’t dream it, you can’t become it.
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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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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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