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There's Michael [Jordan], then there's the rest of us.

Magic Johnson

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Magic Johnson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: August 14
Actor
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Businessperson
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Film Producer
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Hiv Activist
Motivational Speaker
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Michigan
Earvin Magic Johnson Jr.
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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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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.
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Young people want you to be real with them.
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Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.
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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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Life doesnt stop because something happens to you.
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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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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.
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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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Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.
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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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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 motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and dont let anyone tell you you cant. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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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 either have to be great or you have to be bad to get a good pick.
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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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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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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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HIV changed my life, but it doesn't keep me from living.
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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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