Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.
MAGIC JOHNSONThe audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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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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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know.
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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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I really want people to know that I’ve worked hard, very hard, to get to where I am today.. this didn’t just happen overnight.
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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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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
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As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.
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If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to use every connection you’ve got.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
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There’s Michael [Jordan], then there’s the rest of us.
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All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
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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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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 never think that there’s something I can’t do, whether it’s beating my opponent one on one or practicing another hour because something about my game is just not right.
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Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players.
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