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.
MAGIC JOHNSONYou know I was a shy guy and people didn’t know that and still don’t know it today. I’m sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.
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I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.
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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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You also have to research your competition.
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No I changed my mind. I’ll go up on the other side.’ He’s just incredible.
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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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We are a company that lives and breathes a philosophy that’s centered on not only making sound business decisions but also personally and professionally finding ways to contribute to the well being of society.
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Most people who are healthy, and I’m healthy, can’t even live my life.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball.
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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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Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing.
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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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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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The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.
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