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WE all have to play as a team to make the world a better place
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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
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Michigan
Earvin Magic Johnson Jr.
Earvin Johnson
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Earvin Johnson
Earvin Johnson Jr.
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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.
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Life doesnt stop because something happens to you.
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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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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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The looks, the stares, the giggles . . . I wanted to show everybody that I could do better and also that I could read.
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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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If the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community.
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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.
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Young people want you to be real with them.
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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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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.
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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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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.
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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.
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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
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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.
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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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If you want someone to be your mentor, you better be ready to listen and be humbled.
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On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.
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