Earvin Johnson Jr. Quotes

• We’ve dominated sports and we’ve dominated entertainment, but our problem has been we’ve never been able to dominate money. We still don’t own our share of business, and it’s killing us. It’s killing our communities.

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• My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were – they still are – great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.

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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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  Tags in Blessed, Parents

• 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. The attitude that I’m going to show everybody, I’m going to work hard to get better and better.

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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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  Tags in People, Important, Thing

• 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.

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• I’m from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.

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• The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.

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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. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.

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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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  Tags in People, Wonderful

• If you’re a competitive person, that stays with you. You don’t stop. You always look over your shoulder.

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  Tags in Competitive, Person

• All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

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• I tell you, it’s funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

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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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• Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

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• I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.

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  Topics in College

• 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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  Tags in Basketball, Player

• 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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  Topics in Father

  Tags in Self, Idol

• 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.

  Earvin Johnson Jr.

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  Tags in Self, Secret

Earvin Johnson Jr. (30)

Birth:	14th August, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Basketball Player

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Magic Johnson is a retired American professional basketball player who played point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association for 13 seasons. After winning championships in high school and college, Johnson was selected first overall in the 1979 NBA Draft by the Lakers. He won a championship and an NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award in his rookie season, and won four more championships with the Lakers during the 1980s.

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