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
My wife and I have been praying on it and God has answered our prayers, ... God has put me here to play basketball, to do my thing on the court. So that's where I'm going to do my thing, on that court.
I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, and you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says no, then you have to knock on the next door,
I think the game itself has gotten better over the recent years. The reason why is I think the players are now taking the game a little bit more seriously and really trying to win the game.
I can't do it by myself. Hopefully, these other guys and ladies will come on out and invest in our community, because this is not good business, it's great business! You can make some money,
J-Mac said he could beat me one-on-one. Well, before we make this movie we're going to come back into this gymnasium and see if he can.
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.
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.
The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.
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.
When you think about the NASCAR brand, it resonates everywhere. They have the No. 1 sports brand.
I'm gonna love my son until the end.
I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.
Every kid, every minority kid can be so successful if they focus on their education.
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.'