Top 60 Magic Johnson Quotes

Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself – but whether you can bless other people.

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.

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.

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.

I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.

Research your idea. See if there’s a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don’t know if there’s a need for it. You also have to research your competition.

For a long time, I’d work until 10 or 11. When I work, I’m on. I’m ‘Magic.’ I love it, but it takes a lot out of me.

Life doesn’t stop because something happens to you.

People see me high-fivin’ and smiling on the court, and they don’t think that’s me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.

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.

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.

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

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

People don’t stop eating, and they don’t stop drinking coffee.

When I grew up, my family, we sat down, all of us to watch ‘Good Times,’ ‘Sanford and Son,’ all those shows that were out at that time.

My family is a praying family, a Christian family.

I have to tell you, I’m proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people’s lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.

Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball. Magic is a guy who would stand for nothing but winning and really prepared himself as well as he prepared his team. Earvin is the complete opposite.

I like things going on in my life. I don’t want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.

A woman always remembers. Remember that.

When a woman is frustrated, and it’s your wife, you as the husband get that frustration.

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.

Everyone should have the opportunity to get affordable, quality health coverage.

No one plans to get sick or hurt – I certainly didn’t – but most people will need medical care at some point in their lives.

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

My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were – they still are – great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.

My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.

I got blessed from my mom. She’s the personality; she’s the one who smiled, so I took on part of her, and who also wanted to help and save the world. Then I took on part of my dad, who is tough.

I’m building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

I thank Him every chance I get – on my knees praying.

When you think about the NASCAR brand, it resonates everywhere. They have the No. 1 sports brand.

All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.

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.

I’m not cured, but the HIV is asleep deep in my body.

I respect women to the utmost.

Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.

I’m a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.

Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.

I’m the biggest music lover in the world. I mean, I have seen everybody. I went on tour with Michael Jackson and the Jacksons four or five times.

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 grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.

My having HIV has no bearing on my business.

The best doctors and medicine in the world can’t save you if you don’t do what you’re supposed to do.

My work ethic is from sports.

I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.

I’m the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash.

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.’

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

The gay community has taken care of their issues and problems in terms of HIV/AIDS. They have done an incredible job. We as heterosexuals need to learn from the gay community because they have rallied together. They have sent a lot of information out there. They go get tested.

I’m the one who started redevelopment in South Los Angeles, not Jan Perry. I did it. I love Jan. She’s a good person, and she did a wonderful job with what she did downtown, but in L.A., South L.A., I’m the one.

Young people want you to be real with them.

I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.

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.

When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

ObamaCare is working. I talk to a lot of CEOs of hospitals. It is working.

Every kid, every minority kid can be so successful if they focus on their education.

I’m glad that Gov. Scott down in Florida accepted ObamaCare, because it will work.

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.