Jealousy is invariably a symptom. Just like right now with the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.
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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I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.
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If the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community.
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There’s Michael [Jordan], then there’s the rest of us.
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If you’re a competitive person, that stays with you. You don’t stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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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 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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Research your idea. See if there’s a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don’t know if there’s a need for it.
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When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me understand my journey and what I was going to have to deal with day-to-day.
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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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Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing.
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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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The worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor’s office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.
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It’s a burden trying to keep a secret. It’s hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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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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