The attitude that I’m going to show everybody, I’m going to work hard to get better and better.
MAGIC JOHNSONEveryone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
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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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We are also a company that understands community.
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I respect that. I can respect you more by doing that. But don’t smile in my face, shake my hand, and then you don’t really respect me, or want me to be around, or come to your games as the owner of the Clippers.
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The looks, the stares, the giggles . . . I wanted to show everybody that I could do better and also that I could read.
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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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There’s Michael [Jordan], then there’s the rest of us.
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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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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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HIV changed my life, but it doesn’t keep me from living.
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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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Trust me. I get up 530-6 every morning. I’m in the gym. I run a couple miles. I lift weights, and then I’m at work until 8-9 o’clock at night.
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You 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.
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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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And we knew that all of the other leagues were at home and millions of people were watching. So it made it a special day to play on Christmas.
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