Magic Johnson Quotes

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Magic Johnson

Profession : Basketball Player

Birth : August 14, 1959

People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.

Magic Johnson

I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.

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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.

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I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.

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Sometimes friends move apart from each other for whatever reason.

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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.

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No one plans to get sick or hurt - I certainly didn't - but most people will need medical care at some point in their lives.

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As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.

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ObamaCare is working. I talk to a lot of CEOs of hospitals. It is working.

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I'm glad that Gov. Scott down in Florida accepted ObamaCare, because it will work.

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I'm far from being a homosexual.

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For a long time, I'd work until 10 or 11. When I work, I'm on. I'm 'Magic.' I love it, but it takes a lot out of me.

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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'

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When I grew up, my family, we sat down, all of us to watch 'Good Times,' 'Sanford and Son,' all those shows that were out at that time.

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I am and will always be a Laker for life.

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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.

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When you think about the NASCAR brand, it resonates everywhere. They have the No. 1 sports brand.

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People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.

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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 is a guy who would stand for nothing but winning and really prepared himself as well as he prepared his team. Earvin is the complete opposite.

Magic Johnson

I'm the biggest music lover in the world. I mean, I have seen everybody. I went on tour with Michael Jackson and the Jacksons four or five times.

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