Magic Johnson Quotes
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
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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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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, 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 do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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ObamaCare is working. I talk to a lot of CEOs of hospitals. It is working.
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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
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I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.
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My family is a praying family, a Christian family.
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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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Everyone should have the opportunity to get affordable, quality health coverage.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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I am and will always be a Laker for life.
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I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.