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Magic Johnson
American
Athlete
Born:
Aug 14
,
1959
Life
Love
Me
People
Work
You
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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
Magic Johnson
You
Face
Crisis
True
Know
True Friends
Friends
Your
Who
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 Johnson
Life
Great
You
Change
People
Will
My Life
Community
Tell
Bounce
Court
Ball
Always
Proudest
Affecting
Off
Effecting
Model
Role
Role Model
Being
Little
Who
Moments
Round
Lives
Players
Basketball
You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
Magic Johnson
You
Hug
Meal
AIDS
Friend
Get
Handshake
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.
Magic Johnson
Smile
God
Mom
Me
Heart
World
Mother
Parents
Blessed
Big
Save The World
Charisma
Unbelievable
Both
Like
She
Because
Am
Big Heart
Just
Wants
Them
Help
Her
Two
Save
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.
Magic Johnson
Work
Attitude
Best
You
Work Hard
Better
Somebody
First
Year
Everybody
Back
Says
He
Jordan
Came
His
Michael
Michael Jordan
Get
Going
Cut
Hard
Show
Ever
People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.
Magic Johnson
People
Coffee
Drinking
Eating
Stop
If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.
Magic Johnson
You
Stays
Over
Look
Always
Person
Stop
Shoulder
Your
Competitive
Competitive Person
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.
Magic Johnson
Man
Sports
World
Thought
Year
Living
Everyone
Later
Give
He
Like
Know
Educate
Year Later
Die
HIV
Going
Anybody
Then
Helped
Play
Play Basketball
Playing
Basketball
I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.
Magic Johnson
Life
My Life
Somewhere
Relaxing
Beach
Like
Going
Just
Want
Things
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.
Magic Johnson
You
Burden
Secret
Out
More
Takes
Does
Than
Trying
Hold
Really
Hard
Keep
I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.
Magic Johnson
Life
Leader
Else
Know
Always
How
Been
Led
Anything
Anything Else
Whole
I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.
Magic Johnson
God
People
Enjoy
AIDS
About
Know
Terms
Messenger
HIV
Being
Letting
I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
Magic Johnson
People
Every
Say
Bad
Must
People Say
Magic
Having
He
Look
Well
How
Doing
Hear
Hear People
HIV
Often
Just
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.
Magic Johnson
Mom
Personality
World
Tough
Blessed
Save The World
Took
Part
Also
Smiled
She
Got
Wanted
Then
Help
Who
Dad
Her
Save
I'm not cured, but the HIV is asleep deep in my body.
Magic Johnson
Cured
HIV
Asleep
Body
Deep
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.
Magic Johnson
Man
Fruit
Key
Vegetables
Rest
Big
Too
Vegetable
Also
Make
Mostly
Sure
Bed
Am
Fish
Lot
Up
Chicken
Get
May
Diet
Anyway
Early
My work ethic is from sports.
Magic Johnson
Work
Sports
Work Ethic
Ethic
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.
Magic Johnson
Day
You
Every Day
People
Every
Too
Took
Easy
See
No-Brainer
Sony
Know
Look
Up
Them
Then
Grow
Grow Up
Numbers
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.
Magic Johnson
Age
About
Over
Am
Doing
Up
Wanted
After
Your
Businessman
NBA
Growing
Growing Up
Now
Play
Things
Career
Two
Basketball
The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
Magic Johnson
Sex
Easy
Unprotected
Had
Real
Real Story
Story
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.
Magic Johnson
Good
Great
Family
Man
World
Strong
Mother
Care
Father
Good Man
Example
Young
Christian
Think
Too
Great Example
Kids
Examples
Take
Take Care
How
Mothers
Still
Were
Sisters
Six
Taught
Ladies
Us
Your
I thank Him every chance I get - on my knees praying.
Magic Johnson
Every
Knees
Him
Praying
Thank
Get
Every Chance
Chance
I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.
Magic Johnson
Business
Know
Businessman
Numbers
I'm the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash.
Magic Johnson
Will
Worry
Backlash
About
Take
Who
Chance
Chances
When a woman is frustrated, and it's your wife, you as the husband get that frustration.
Magic Johnson
You
Woman
Frustration
Wife
Husband
Get
Frustrated
Your
My family is a praying family, a Christian family.
Magic Johnson
Family
Christian
Praying
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