Magic Johnson Quotes

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
Magic Johnson

Crisis, True, Friends

Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
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.
Magic Johnson

Work, Best, Attitude

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

Hope, Help, Kids

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.
Magic Johnson

Important, Mean, Since

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.
Magic Johnson

God, Smile, Mom

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.
Magic Johnson

Age, Career, Basketball

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.
Magic Johnson

Crazy, Basketball, Serious

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.
Magic Johnson

Good, Laugh, Cry

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.
Magic Johnson

Funny, Time, Tell

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

Person, Stop, Shoulder

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.
Magic Johnson

Sports, Basketball, Give

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.
Magic Johnson

Love, Work, Bad

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

College, Ask, Mental

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.
Magic Johnson

Work, Wonderful, Playing

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.
Magic Johnson

Time, Men, Long

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.
Magic Johnson

Easy, Grow, Took

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.
Magic Johnson

Hard, Trying, Keep

Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.
Magic Johnson

Basketball, Magic, Court

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.
Magic Johnson

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.
Magic Johnson

Work, Home, Happy

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.
Magic Johnson

Family, Good, Great

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. You also have to research your competition.
Magic Johnson

Great, Idea, Research

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.
Magic Johnson

Time, Hard, Moment

The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
Magic Johnson

Sex, Real, Easy

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Nationality: American

Born: August 14, 1959

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