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 Read Quote
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. Magic Johnson Read Quote
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.’ Magic Johnson Read Quote
I tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn’t be a 6-foot, 9-inch point guard, and I proved them wrong. Then they told me I couldn’t be a businessman and make money in urban America, and I proved them wrong. And they thought I couldn’t win all these championships, and I proved them wrong there as well. Magic Johnson Read Quote
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. Magic Johnson Read Quote
My dad worked two jobs his whole life, and so I told him he’s the reason I have 20 jobs. Magic Johnson Read Quote
I got blessed from my mom. She’s the personality; she’s the one who smiled, so I took on part of her, and who also wanted to help and save the world. Then I took on part of my dad, who is tough. Magic Johnson Read Quote
My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn’t tell me there’s a thing called the curveball. I didn’t know that. So the ball’s coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, ‘Strike one!’ And I’m saying, ‘How is that a strike? It almost hit me!’ Magic Johnson Read Quote
