Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.
— Magic Johnson
My work ethic is from sports.
I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.
I get up 5:30-6 every morning. I'm in the gym. I run a couple miles.
My dad worked two jobs his whole life, and so I told him he's the reason I have 20 jobs.
I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.
I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.
When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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 to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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.
I'm far from being a homosexual.
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.
Everyone should have the opportunity to get affordable, quality health coverage.
I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.
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 like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.
When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me understand my journey and what I was going to have to deal with day-to-day. I found out that a person named Elizabeth Frazier was living with AIDS at the time, and so I called her up, and she took a meeting with me.
My having HIV has no bearing on my business.
My family is a praying family, a Christian family.
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 love putting people to work of color.
A woman always remembers. Remember that.
I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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.
Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.
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.'
I'm not cured, but the HIV is asleep deep in my body.
I'm glad that Gov. Scott down in Florida accepted ObamaCare, because it will work.
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.
I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.
Sometimes friends move apart from each other for whatever reason.
I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.
I try to hire people I don't have to motivate. But I do motivate the people working with and for me.
Every kid, every minority kid can be so successful if they focus on their education.
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 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.
My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!'
When a woman is frustrated, and it's your wife, you as the husband get that frustration.
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 tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn't be a 6-foot, 9-inch point guard, and I proved them wrong. Then they told me I couldn't be a businessman and make money in urban America, and I proved them wrong. And they thought I couldn't win all these championships, and I proved them wrong there as well.
When you think about the NASCAR brand, it resonates everywhere. They have the No. 1 sports brand.
I am and will always be a Laker for life.
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.
The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.
ObamaCare is working. I talk to a lot of CEOs of hospitals. It is working.
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.
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.
I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.
