226 Quotes by Magic Johnson

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.

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.

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.

I grew up poor, but I didn’t have poor dreams.

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.

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

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

On his telepathic understanding with James Worthy- It’s almost like we have ESPN.

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.