Top 100 Quotes About Magic Johnson
#1. Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency.
Don Yaeger
#2. People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.
Oscar Robertson
#3. A lot of people I meet say, 'You remind me so much of Magic Johnson.'
Carmelo Anthony
#4. Magic Johnson is the best player who plays on the ground, and Michael Jordan is the best player who plays in the air.
John Paxson
#5. Growing up, Magic Johnson was my idol. He was a good example. He could always pass the ball extremely well and get his teammates involved.
Jason Kidd
#6. There's so much that I want to do. I feel like I'm the Magic Johnson of rap. You know, Magic was great on the basketball court, but he's bigger as a businessman.
Snoop Dogg
#7. Magic Johnson links his HIV and treatment to health care as though ObamaCare would provide the same level of care that a mega rich celebrity would get. Is he going to dump his coverage? Is he going to dump it and sign up for ObamaCare?
Greg Gutfeld
#8. Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.
Jay Leno
#9. I went down and played with Magic Johnson at his all-star game in Atlanta. I remember Magic stopped the game and said, 'We need you here with us in L.A.'
Jayson Williams
#10. Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness. The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all
Bill Walton
#11. I think the greatest player I've ever played against was Magic Johnson. Next, was Larry Bird. Then, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
John Salley
#12. Get a in clothes dryer with Magic Johnson and some razorblades.
Jim Norton
#13. I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.
Oscar Robertson
#14. Although it may seem callous to say so, millions of Americans are lucky that Magic Johnson was infected with H.I.V. There is no way of calculating how many lives he has saved. No advertising agency could have invented a better, or more effective, role model.
Michael Specter
#15. Researching Magic Johnson, I realized I clearly haven't done enough with my life.
Kevin Daniels
#16. I'd rather hug Magic Johnson after he rolled around in barbed wire.
Jim Norton
#17. I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes.
Jonah Hill
#18. Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.
Nat Wolff
#19. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a cure for AIDS in the marketplace before Magic Johnson gets AIDS?
Dan Quayle
#21. I get up 5:30-6 every morning. I'm in the gym. I run a couple miles.
Magic Johnson
#22. I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.
Magic Johnson
#23. It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
Magic Johnson
#25. 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.
Magic Johnson
#26. If I die tomorrow, next year or whenever it might be, I'll know I've had a great life.
Bill Gutman
#27. Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing.
Magic Johnson
#28. If people around you aren't going anywhere, if their dreams are no bigger than hanging out on the corner, or if they're dragging you down, get rid of them.
Magic Johnson
#29. ObamaCare is working. I talk to a lot of CEOs of hospitals. It is working.
Magic Johnson
#30. 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.
Magic Johnson
#31. I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
Magic Johnson
#32. I didn't dare put down the staff with Etienne popping in and out like a half-burned, bloodsucking whack-a-mole.
Suzanne Johnson
#33. Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
Magic Johnson
#34. I wouldn't do the 'Magic Hour' again, but I would do TV again. The 'Magic Hour' is not me. Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.
Magic Johnson
#35. I'm glad that Gov. Scott down in Florida accepted ObamaCare, because it will work.
Magic Johnson
#36. Everyone should have the opportunity to get affordable, quality health coverage.
Magic Johnson
#37. When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
Magic Johnson
#38. We do everything we can to protect the people we love, whatever it takes, and it's not enough. Unlike bone, once that illusionary magic circle is broken, it can never be completely repaired, and it is not stronger at the break.
Craig Johnson
#39. I'm the one who started redevelopment in South Los Angeles, not Jan Perry. I did it. I love Jan. She's a good person, and she did a wonderful job with what she did downtown, but in L.A., South L.A., I'm the one.
Magic Johnson
#40. I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
Magic Johnson
#41. 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
#42. 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 I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.
Magic Johnson
#43. This is beautiful." Eugenie ran her fingers along a massive mahogany sideboard, on the top of which rested a red velvet sash with fine embroidery on it and, on top of the sash, a silver dagger. That little vignette was Jean Lafitte in a nutshell. Refined gentleman and renegade. Velvet and violence.
Suzanne Johnson
#44. I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.
Magic Johnson
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. Don't give up! Be friends with people who help you work hard.
Magic Johnson
#48. I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.
Magic Johnson
#49. The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
Magic Johnson
#50. You don't have to be Magic to be special. You're already special, you're you.
Magic Johnson
#51. You're the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.
Magic Johnson
#52. 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.
Magic Johnson
#53. I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.
Magic Johnson
#54. I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house. I remember like it was yesterday. He had worked all those years to own that house and he cried. He was so excited and so happy and I want to see other people get that feeling, too.
Magic Johnson
#55. Once Michael gets up there he says, 'Well, maybe I'll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back.' Then all of a sudden, he says, 'Well, maybe I'll 360. No I changed my mind. I'll go up on the other side.' He's just incredible.
Magic Johnson
#56. You either have to be great or you have to be bad to get a good pick.
Magic Johnson
#57. They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
Magic Johnson
#58. Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.
Magic Johnson
#59. I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.
Magic Johnson
#61. Because if you're going to lose, lose. I'm serious.
Magic Johnson
#62. My family is a praying family, a Christian family.
Magic Johnson
#63. HIV changed my life, but it doesn't keep me from living.
Magic Johnson
#64. Standing on that platform, I said a silent prayer. I thanked God for giving me the strength and the opportunity to come back, to play basketball again, and to be part of that whole magnificent Olympic experience. It's a memory I will always cherish.
Magic Johnson
#65. Affairs with unavailable people are a heroin high before nausea hits. Like smack they are destined to disappoint.
They begin with magic. Then the chasing after magic.
And finally the MOURNING FOR MAGIC.
Merri Lisa Johnson
#66. To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
Magic Johnson
#67. My diet is mostly chicken and fish. 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. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
Magic Johnson
#68. WE all have to play as a team to make the world a better place
Magic Johnson
#70. Larry, you only told me one lie. You said there will be another Larry Bird. Larry, there will never, ever be another Larry Bird.
Magic Johnson
#71. When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
Magic Johnson
#72. I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.
Magic Johnson
#73. My dad worked two jobs his whole life, and so I told him he's the reason I have 20 jobs.
Magic Johnson
#74. When you think about the NASCAR brand, it resonates everywhere. They have the No. 1 sports brand.
Magic Johnson
#75. On his telepathic understanding with James Worthy- It's almost like we have ESPN.
Magic Johnson
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. I thank Him every chance I get - on my knees praying.
Magic Johnson
#79. He's violent and unpredictable. He hit you once-hard. Oh, sure he saved your life later but it was in his beat interests. Plus, you have absolutely no common sense where he is concerned, and we won't even mention the dead thing.
Suzanne Johnson
#80. I'm not cured, but the HIV is asleep deep in my body.
Magic Johnson
#81. 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
#82. There's Michael [Jordan], then there's the rest of us.
Magic Johnson
#84. I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says 'No', then you have to knock on the next door.
Magic Johnson
#85. All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
Magic Johnson
#86. He pulled out handcuffs and snapped them around my wrists. "Where's your bag? You didn't bring your staff?"
"I have it. It's hidden." Charlie was currently tucked inside the leg of my Harry Potter pajama bottoms, which were beneath my jeans, but that fell under the category of TMI.
Suzanne Johnson
#87. 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
#88. Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
Magic Johnson
#89. If you hate to lose, you do whatever you need to do to make sure you're business is successful.
Magic Johnson
#91. You know I was a shy guy and people didn't know that and still don't know it today. I'm sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.
Magic Johnson
#92. I love business. I love helping urban communities grow. I love putting people to work of color. I love making sure.. like right now the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.
Magic Johnson
#93. With businesses, you go to the same places because you like the service, you like the people and they take care of you. They greet you with a smile. That's how people want to be treated, with respect. That's what I tell my employees.. customer service is very important.
Magic Johnson
#94. We cut him off and there was nowhere for him to go but out of bounds ... It's still the greatest move I've ever seen in basketball, the all-time greatest.
Magic Johnson
#95. The worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor's office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.
Magic Johnson
#97. I really want people to know that I've worked hard, very hard, to get to where I am today.. this didn't just happen overnight. I started in business over 25 years ago and have found a way to build on what I've learned through every partnership and opportunity.
Magic Johnson
#98. I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.
Magic Johnson
#99. On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.
Magic Johnson
#100. I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.
Magic Johnson
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