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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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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I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time. – Breaux Greer

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Cricket — a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. – Lord Mancroft

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Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. – Grantland Rice

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Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic. – Ivan Lendl

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When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life. – DeForest Soaries

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