I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.
MAGIC JOHNSONIt all started when I got injured early in my second season. This turned out to be as difficult emotionally as physically.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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You don’t have to be Magic to be special. You’re already special, you’re you.
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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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There’s winning and there’s losing, and in life you have to know they both will happen. But what’s never been acceptable to me is quitting.
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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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People don’t stop eating, and they don’t stop drinking coffee.
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On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.
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I started in business over 25 years ago and have found a way to build on what I’ve learned through every partnership and opportunity.
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In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.
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I’m at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
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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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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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God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
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Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.
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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 grew up poor, but I didn’t have poor dreams
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