Quotes from Magic Johnson

I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.

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!'

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.

I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.

I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.

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

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

I respect women to the utmost.

Don't give up! Be friends with people who help you work hard.

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.

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.

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 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.

My work ethic is from sports.

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.

If you hate to lose, you do whatever you need to do to make sure you're business is successful.

I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.