Quote by Magic Johnson
Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didnt

Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didnt know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. Hes not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball. – Magic Johnson

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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

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Age
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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 Im going to show everybody, Im going to work hard to get better and better. – Magic Johnson

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Attitude
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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. – Magic Johnson

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mom
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A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind. – Ronald Graham

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When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury. – Fran Lebowitz

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Theres steps that Ive taken already, and each week, talking with the sports psychologist on a routine basis and working with the different programs that were going through. This is all stuff that you can say youre going to make a difference, but Im putting it into action. – Kurt Busch

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As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists. – Tim Conway

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Sports

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After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didnt ask for and which we couldnt afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs. – Mitch McConnell

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I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics. – Kenneth Robert Livingstone

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The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom. – Ed Miliband

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