No I changed my mind. I’ll go up on the other side.’ He’s just incredible.
MAGIC JOHNSONI remember like it was yesterday. He had worked all those years to own that house and he cried. He was so excited and so happy and I want to see other people get that feeling, too.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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I’ve always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I’d read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.
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I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I’m talking about just for the league itself.
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You also have to research your competition.
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I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That’s the key I may be up early, but I’m in bed early too.
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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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Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know.
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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.
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Larry, you only told me one lie. You said there will be another Larry Bird. Larry, there will never, ever be another Larry Bird.
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WE all have to play as a team to make the world a better place
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On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.
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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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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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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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