Magic Johnson Quotes About Basketball

Quotes about: Basketball

• All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

  Magic Johnson

  Relationship, Basketball, Hope

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

  Magic Johnson

  Friends, Basketball, True Friend

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Athlete, Player

• You're the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Dream, Differences

• In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Winning, Losing

• They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Killing, They Said

• Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.

  Magic Johnson

  Inspiring, Basketball, Who I Am

  Earvin "Magic" Johnson, William Novak (2012). “My Life”, p.7, Random House

• 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

  Motivational, Inspiring, Basketball

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I never think that there's something I can't do, whether it's beating my opponent one on one or practicing another hour because something about my game is just not right.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Thinking, Games

• 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

  Basketball, Mother, Daughter

  "Magic Johnson pushes HIV awareness". Interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. November 24, 2004.

• 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

  Basketball, Sports, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

  Magic Johnson

  Inspiring, Basketball, Teamwork

• If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.

  Magic Johnson

  Inspiring, Basketball, Winning

  "Making Magic". Interview with Janean Chun, www.entrepreneur.com. July 1, 1998.

• 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

  Basketball, Mean, People

  "Magic Johnson pushes HIV awareness". Interview With Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. November 24, 2004.

• 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

  Motivational, Basketball, Attitude

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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

  Basketball, Growing Up, Nba

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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

  Basketball, Moving, Cutting

• 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

  Inspiring, Basketball, Father

• I'm a big believer in dreaming. If you don't dream it, you can't become it.

  Magic Johnson

  Inspiring, Basketball, Dream

• For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball. There's winning and there's losing, and in life you have to know they both will happen. But what's never been acceptable to me is quitting.

  Magic Johnson

  Inspiring, Basketball, Winning

• 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

  Basketball, Dream, People

  Earvin "Magic" Johnson, William Novak (2012). “My Life”, p.96, Random House

• 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

  Motivational, Basketball, Greatness

  "Making Magic". Interview with Janean Chun, www.entrepreneur.com. July 1, 1998.

• 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

  Motivational, Basketball, Air

  "Classic NBA Quotes: Michael Jordan". NBA Encyclopedia, www.nba.com.

• 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

  Basketball, Memories, Prayer

• Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Celebrate

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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