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
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My dad worked two jobs his whole life, and so I told him he's the reason I have 20 jobs.
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.
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.
I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.
Sometimes friends move apart from each other for whatever reason.
I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.
I am and will always be a Laker for life.
When a woman is frustrated, and it's your wife, you as the husband get that frustration.
I try to hire people I don't have to motivate. But I do motivate the people working with and for me.
Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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.
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!'
I'm the one who started redevelopment in South Los Angeles, not Jan Perry. I did it. I love Jan. She's a good person, and she did a wonderful job with what she did downtown, but in L.A., South L.A., I'm the one.