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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
Magic Johnson
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Magic Johnson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: August 14
Actor
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
Film Producer
Financier
Hiv Activist
Motivational Speaker
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Michigan
Earvin Magic Johnson Jr.
Earvin Johnson
Jr.
Earvin Johnson
Earvin Johnson Jr.
Open
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Honest
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I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
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You either have to be great or you have to be bad to get a good pick.
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When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me understand my journey and what I was going to have to deal with day-to-day. I found out that a person named Elizabeth Frazier was living with AIDS at the time, and so I called her up, and she took a meeting with me.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.
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HIV changed my life, but it doesn't keep me from living.
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Life doesnt stop because something happens to you.
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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.
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If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to use every connection you’ve got.
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If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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Assists is what Earvin is all about. That's what my whole life has been, assisting others.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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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.
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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.
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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.
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It all started when I got injured early in my second season. This turned out to be as difficult emotionally as physically.
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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
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