Earvin Magic Johnson

A lot of times growing up you don't want to eat your green beans, and your spinach, and all the other healthy things that you should eat. So, I would encourage young people to do that. And get outside! What is hurting young people today is that video games are killing us because we don't get outside like we used to.
Earvin Magic Johnson

Young people want you to be real with them.
Earvin Magic Johnson

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.
Earvin Magic Johnson

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.
Earvin Magic Johnson

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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Most people who are healthy, and I'm healthy, can't even live my life. 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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That first game, I was so excited and so nervous that I ran out of the court leading my team out. I'm trying to be cool but not show that I'm so excited. By the time I get down there, I'm about to lay it up - the first layup, I trip and stumble and started rolling. That's how nervous I was. I turned around and they were just dying laughing at me.
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When I still ran out on the court and saw him posting up and he'll throw that one hand up all the time, I was just blessed and lucky to be playing with him and with all the rest of the guys, the Lakers. I mean God was really looking out for myself and Larry Bird. I mean Lakers, Magic. Larry Bird to Boston. I mean it was just a storybook.
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I came back to basketball one other time because I wanted to go out my way. So I finished it. Fellow basketball players were very receptive. I played in the All-Star game-had a wonderful game and got the MVP. So I think guys said, 'OK, he's OK.' Because everyone thought I was going to die, like a year later. And so they didn't know.
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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. And the mental part I was ready for but the defense part I wasn't because the next night (George) Gervin had 40 on me, Paul Westphal the next night had 38 on me. So defensively I was not ready but mentally I was ready.
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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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Most people who are healthy, and I'm healthy, can't even live my life. 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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If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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