Best 80 quotes of Magic Johnson on MyQuotes

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom. Just like right now with the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.

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

A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'

Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.

As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.

Assists is what Earvin is all about. That's what my whole life has been, assisting others.

Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing.

Christmas Day was special because everybody is watching at home. That's what I loved about Christmas Day because it shined the spotlight on the Lakers, on our team, and we knew that all of the other leagues were at home and millions of people were watching. So it made it a special day to play on Christmas.

Don't give up! Be friends with people who help you work hard.

Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

HIV changed my life, but it doesn't keep me from living.

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.

I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.

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.

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.

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.

If you come to me and say, 'Hey look I'm a racist,' or 'I discriminate against blacks,' or 'I don't like you because you're African American,' I respect that. I can respect you more by doing that. But don't smile in my face, shake my hand, and then you don't really respect me, or want me to be around, or come to your games as the owner of the Clippers.

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

If you want someone to be your mentor, you better be ready to listen and be humbled.

If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to use every connection you’ve got.

I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.

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.

I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.

I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.

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

I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.

I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers... it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.

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.

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.

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

I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.

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.

It all started when I got injured early in my second season. This turned out to be as difficult emotionally as physically.

I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

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.

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.

It's almost like we have ESPN.

I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.

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.

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.

I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here.

I was able to see what I wanted to do, I could see the opportunity, even when others could not, and I stay committed to doing it and doing it well, no matter what.

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.

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

Larry, you only told me one lie. You said there will be another Larry Bird. Larry, there will never, ever be another Larry Bird.