Magic Johnson Quotes

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Magic Johnson

Profession : Basketball Player

Birth : August 14, 1959

All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.

Magic Johnson

I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.

Magic Johnson

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

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

Magic Johnson

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

Magic Johnson

I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.

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

I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.

Magic Johnson

Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.

Magic Johnson

The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.

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.

Magic Johnson

I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.

Magic Johnson

When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

Magic Johnson

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

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

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

I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.

Magic Johnson

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.

Magic Johnson

The gay community has taken care of their issues and problems in terms of HIV/AIDS. They have done an incredible job. We as heterosexuals need to learn from the gay community because they have rallied together. They have sent a lot of information out there. They go get tested.

Magic Johnson

I'm not cured, but the HIV is asleep deep in my body.

Magic Johnson