Magic Johnson
Magic Johnson
Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr.is an American retired professional basketball player who played point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Associationfor 13 seasons. After winning championships in high school and college, Johnson was selected first overall in the 1979 NBA draft by the Lakers. He won a championship and an NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award in his rookie season, and won four more championships with the Lakers during the 1980s. Johnson retired abruptly in 1991 after...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth14 August 1959
CityLansing, MI
CountryUnited States of America
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.
My dad worked two jobs his whole life, and so I told him he's the reason I have 20 jobs.
ObamaCare is working. I talk to a lot of CEOs of hospitals. It is working.
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.'
Every kid, every minority kid can be so successful if they focus on their education.
I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.
I'm gonna love my son until the end.
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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.
The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.
You always run a risk, but I think the positive outweighs the risks, ... Life itself is a risk. But I'm not worried about that. If I was concerned about that, I wouldn't be up here.
We're not letting you just come into our community anymore without a partner or without one of us being a partner in that deal,
We were doing inventory and I said, 'Okay, I know the inner city. I know how we do when we go to movies. These hot dogs are going to be gone the first week.' (They say,) 'No way, no way. We don't sell that much over at such and such.' What happens? We open on a Friday, the hot dogs are gone by Sunday? by Sunday!
We feel that we are going to have a great success here in Brooklyn, a theater that everybody will be proud of and everybody will come and support. We will continue to be a community-based theater. That's what we do different than any other theater chain.